Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...agreement a free state, not even subject to the League, is virtually an Italian protectorate, since Italian influence is dominant in municipal affairs. The port itself will be used freely by both parties, however, so that the Jugo-Slavs come out of the affair rather well. Above all, the settlement bids fair to be a permanent one, thus removing another of those irritations that more than once in the past have brought Europe to war. The compromise is therefore a decided step toward permanent peace...
With the greatly increased Republican majority in the Senate, the prospect of getting some kind of a league is greatly improved. There will be enough Democratic senators to offset the votes of the "irreconcilables" and these gentlemen can be mustered for a non-partisan settlement, if those who say they are for a league are really...
...like the "grandfather clauses" of some Southern States, may be in conflict with the spirit and letter of some fundamental clauses of the Constitution, but they deal with emergencies which that document was not designed to meet specifically, but only generally and abstractly. They are attempts at a peaceful settlement of pressing racial problems. And the Californians, far from being "scare-mongers," have done their proper part towards forcing the nation to settle a question of whose gravity few people outside of California are aware. The Californians are distinctly on the side of peace. RALPH M. EATON, Instr. November...
Every week or ten days an entertainment troupe is made up, chiefly from the men of unusual talent with whom the Social Service Committee is in touch, and is sent to some settlement house to entertain not only the boys and young men, but also their families...
Although 110 men from the University have been placed in the different settlement houses, boys, clubs, Y. M. C. A. s, and churches around Boston, and are either teaching, reading entertaining, playing basketball, or visiting poor families, there is still a large number of places to be filled and every day new calls for aid are received. There is work and there are places to work for all who can give two hours a week either in the afternoon or evening. At present the largest demand is for men to take over boys' basketball clubs, to assist along musical lines...