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...Government was last week billed $74,243,000 for the 94 ships, great and small, which it seized from Germany during the War. Under the terms of the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928 Arbiter James W. Remick finally evaluated, as of July 2, 1921, these craft interned in U. S. ports since 1914 and specified indemnification for their German owners. Chief beneficiaries: Hamburg-American Line ($38,801,000) and North German Lloyd...
...Germany was great rejoicing at settlement of this major War claim-but the payments will not be completed by the U. S. for 27 years...
Lillian Wald, social worker (Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement).. .LL.D...
Seymour Parker Gilbert: A young man called to the relentless task of carrying out the reparation settlement, who achieved the incredible...
Yesterday was the first day of actual work on the part of the delegates, some 5000 of whom are in attendance. Among the outstanding visitors to the city at this time are Jane Addams of Hull House, 'Chicago, one of the most famous of the country's settlement workers; and George W. Wickersham, head of the President's law enforcement commission. Professor Frankfurter was one of several speakers on yesterday's program...