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During November the Social Service Committee has placed 39 more men in settlement houses. With the help of the Cambridge Family Welfare Society, 40 Thanksgiving baskets were delivered. At least one member of the committee has been attending the bi-weekly luncheons of the Boys Workers' Federation of Greater Boston...
...William Christian Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., went to Warm Springs for his last instructions before leaving for Moscow. He was told to go to his post, find a place to live, settle himself, return as soon as he discovered what sort of settlement of U. S. and Russian prerecognition claims the Kremlin would agree...
...start of a new era. it was poetically fitting that Harvard sent down her leading team from Winthrop House, and that Yale's challenger was Saybrook College. Both of these old New England Colonial names--one that of the first Governor of Massachusetts, and the other the fourth English settlement in Connecticut, founded by the same John Winthrop--gave an interesting touch to the occasion. But the real interest lay in the fact that the first game was being played between Yale and Harvard on the new lines of purely amateur-coached and informally selected elevens. The game...
Seventh, adjustment of private debts through the passage of the McKeownLa Guardia bill, providing that when '66 2-3 per cent of the creditors of a corporation agree upon a plan of settlement or reorganization, this shall be binding upon the minority. The proposal passed the House, but failed in the Senate last February and was not pressed in the extra session...
...Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince Serge exchanged $15,000 in notes for Singer McCormic's claim...