Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government, interested as it is in the maintenance of peace in all parts of the world, is gratified that the League of Nations, with a view to a peaceful settlement, has given its attention to the controversy which has unhappily arisen between your Government and the Italian Government and that the controversy is now in process of arbitration...
...provides for . . . paying $1,600,000,000 more than the present value of the certificates. It requires an expenditure of more than $2,200,000,000 in cash for this purpose. It directs payment to the veterans of a much larger sum than was contemplated in the 1924 settlement. It is nothing less than a complete abandonment of that settlement. It is a new, straight gratuity or bounty to the amount...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
...encouraged their employes to form company unions. The A. F. of L., with the aid of the National Labor Relations Board, was unable to crash the steel industry when Weirton Steel worsted them in court, failed to crash the automobile industry when Franklin Roosevelt negotiated a settlement of the threatened automobile strike on the basis of proportional union representation.* After 21 months of Section ya, the A. F. of L. had actually lost ground: it claimed some 3,500,000 members of the 28,000,000 men employed in industry, a gross gain, but whereas it had previously been...
...bruised in the economic skirmish, even Mr. Morgenthau does not venture to say, but since President Roosevelt's refusal to cooperate wrecked the World Monetary and Economic Conference at London in 1933, it is incumbent upon the same man to take the initiative for a new and more satisfactory settlement of the world's problems...