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Attempting to reach an out-of-court settlement in the contempt proceedings brought by the Macmillan Company, publishers, against the College Tutoring Bureau, attorneys for both sides yesterday secured a week's postponement of the preliminary hearings which had been scheduled to be held before the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts yesterday afternoon...
...This policy was: 1) to prevent war if possible; 2) if war proved inevitable, to use every method short of war to assure victory for the democracies; 3) to recognize in their policy that "neutrals are parties at interest in a modern war, and particularly in the post-war settlement"; 4) to gain U. S. ends, political commitments in the western hemisphere, and possibly economic commitments toward a stable economy of the whole world; 5) "Whatever happens, we won't send troops abroad" (Franklin Roosevelt...
Extremists both North and South make the solution of this problem tougher. In Manhattan sits the unofficial Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc. Taking a they-hired-the-money attitude, it protests partial settlement offers by the debt-laden Republics, thereby revives traditional Latin American resentment against the Shylock of the North. Extremists in the South are hardboiled governments (Mexico's, Bolivia's) which assume that the U. S. has the jitters. Eager to capitalize on Washington's fear that the Fascist axis will undermine the Monroe Doctrine, they would kid the U. S. into canceling the bonds...
...year-old Settlement is governed by a Municipal Council which since 1930 has consisted (under an unwritten gentlemen's agreement) of five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, two Japanese...
...starred a social project as ever drew howls from anti-New Deal columnists is Jersey Homesteads, a settlement of 200 flat-roofed, garage-like homes halfway between New York and Philadelphia and hard by the Revolutionary battlefield of Monmouth.* Designed for Manhattan garment workers, 120 of whom paid in $500 each for participation in a cooperative garment factory on the grounds, Jersey Homesteads was thoroughly snarled in Government red tape. Some $4,000,000 went into purchase of the land (1,275 acres), building of a factory and homes, equipping a communal farm. Thousands of dollars went out the window...