Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they have contracted in the matter of the Jewish national home, and for which they are responsible to the League of Nations and to the United States. Unfortunately, Great Britain has seen fit to disregard largely these obligations and to place obstacles in the way of the Jewish settlement in Palestine...
...undersigned welcomes the opportunity to remind that part of the world's public opinion represented by the readers of the CRIMSON that among the problems still awaiting solution is that of facilitating the settlement in Palestine of millions of Jews, pushed out of their countries of residence by economic or by official pressure, and of permitting them to live there in conditions of safety and self-respect. That this solution of the Jewish problem would be eminently just, has been acknowledged after the war by all civilized countries, including the United states (Sec: U. S. Department of State; Mandate...
...throughout the game, and any other idle broker may join in, although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss is between $10 and $20 per "session...
...When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable of a transplanted menial who becomes hero of a town which he describes as "a remote settlement" is as tender and as softly humorous now as it was when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero. It is not due entirely to the intonations supplied in minor parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland...
Married. Helen Hall, fortyish, director of Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, president of the National Federation of Settlements; and Paul Underwood Kellogg, 55, editor of The Survey and The Survey Graphic; in Jersey City...