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There was never any chance that the veto would be dropped or greatly modified. Realizing this, the critics asked only that the Council be empowered to investigate a dispute, and to recommend a peaceful settlement (without taking any further action), despite the veto of a Great Power. The U.S. and Britain might be willing to make these concessions if Moscow would go along...
...since been commissioned and promoted to the rank of Lientenant Colonel, in which capacity he acted as a representative of the War Department in Congress at the time of the passage of the Contract Settlement Act. Previously he had worked with Judge John J. Parker on the American Bar Association Committee for the reform of civil procedure...
...weeks before Pearl Harbor, John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers ended a six-day strike. Its aim: to extend the union shop to the captive mines owned by the big steel companies. But the dispute lingered on until John L. got a settlement to suit him. The date...
...centuries after the birth of Christ, an Anglo-Saxon invader named Leaxa settled in the Midlands of ancient Britain. His settlement was named Laxton, or Lexington-"the place of Leaxa's men." More than a thousand years later, men carried this already hoary name to the colony of Massachusetts where, one morning in 1775, it suddenly became historic. The name & fame of Lexington spread like wildfire through the colonies, until at last it even reached a lonely hunting camp far beyond the Cumberland Gap. "Let us call this place Lexington," said one of the hunters admiringly. And so they...
...time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...