Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this action I am calling upon the Chinese government on Formosa to cease all air and sea operations against the mainland. The Seventh Fleet will see that this is done. The determination of the future status of Formosa must await the restoration of security in the Pacific, a peace settlement with Japan, or consideration by the United Nations...
...three years of study, Justice Minister Stuart Garson contritely declared that the property taken from the Japanese had been sold too cheaply. The government, he announced, would pay $1,222,829 to 1,300 citizens of Japanese descent to compensate them for their losses. Commented the Ottawa Citizen: "The settlement. . . will wind up an affair of which no Canadian can be proud...
...grant of amnesty to all German prisoners of war. 2. Settlement of a long feud with Belgium. 3. The end of 340 years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. 4. The breaking off of relations with Russia. 5. Her plans for a round-the-world goodwill tour...
Honored by the Williamsburg Settlement of Brooklyn with a gold medal for "her great efforts to transpose the ideals of social justice into realities": Eleanor Roosevelt. Principal speaker at a gathering of 1,200 people to pay her honor: Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, former Republican Representative from Connecticut, who called Mrs. Roosevelt "the best-loved woman in the world today." Said Mrs. Luce: "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed...
Little protested that he had abstained from voting on any of the deals involving Textron. But last week, deciding that he had had enough, Textron's Little agreed to have his lawyers work out a settlement with Pomerantz. This week a settlement equivalent to $600,000 was before the court and stockholders for approval. Pomerantz was asking...