Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Palestine is far from the only organized settlement of Jewish refugees, although it is by far the most costly and troublesome. A small settlement exists in The Netherlands on land reclaimed from the Zuider Zee. There are others in Czechoslovakia, Russia, South America. Most have followed Palestine in having friction with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya...
...strike was called the hotels declared that previous offers were off. Week after week negotiations blew hot, then cold. Last month one hotel sued the City of San Francisco for damages, alleging insufficient police protection for continuation of operations. Last week on the strike's 87th day a settlement was finally arranged by which the front office clerks, about 75, were recognized, though on other points the strikers lost ground. Even after the settlement the strikers refused to return to work until the hotels signed contracts with twelve nonstriking unions such as barbers, electricians, musicians, et al. When this...
...Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year, about a divorce settlement. When the conference ended, Trapezist Codona asked to be left alone with his wife, drew a gun, shot her four times, put a fifth bullet through his own head...
Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham check looked almost like a settlement. At the time the president of the college, Brother Albert, explained: "I paid Mr. Madigan because I recognized a just debt and because I recognize that he has brought certain assets to St. Mary...