Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who saw in the recent settlement of the Hungarian-Jugo-Slavian affair the beginning of a new era in international politics should be interested by an item in yesterday's newspapers dealing with the equally fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black...
...head of a band of 104 settlers, sallow, thin-faced Ethan Allen, lineal descendant of the Green Mountain general of the Revolution, set out from Minneapolis to found a co-operative homestead settlement in northern Minnesota. Shrewd Leader Allen had persuaded the U. S. Government to buy 640 acres of land for $9,000. After one winter in a community log house, each family will receive, in addition to land, two cows, two pigs, a hive of bees, 100 chickens, farm machinery, a house costing $1,500?all free...
...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...
...engagements of that most excellent film "All Quiet on the Western Front" will be apropos and decidedly timely. Without overstating the power of the screen it is safe to say that a viewing of this picture cannot fail to inspire a decided conviction that no matter what the issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because it is not merely a collection of stark scenes of murder and brutality...
...First use of his pet name for her in public. *Though no longer Queen she retains by a legal settlement the title of Her Majesty...