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Among the more bulky articles three gifts predominated a Ford car, of unknown value: a piano, and a ton of ancient magazines of all kinds. The piano will be sent to a Settlement House, while the magazines will be sent to the Merchant Marine for use of the sailors...
...Starting from the Henry Street settlement in New York where I met Miss Lillian D. Wald, I encountered such depths of misery, moral and physical, as would appall the most experienced social workers. A great deal of child delinquency is due to the Prohibition law. Parents break the law and are inveterate drinkers. . . . The child becomes accustomed to see the law disobeyed. ... The very base of family life is different in the United States from that in older countries. About half the population have no religious beliefs at all. The home is merely a place for sleeping, or, occasionally, eating...
...attempts religious discussion groups for Freshmen, is affiliated with the student branch of the Y. M. C. A. The Phillips Brooks House devotes its energies to social service work, university hospitality, cooperation with student government, and is independent of national organization. Loan libraries, medical and dental clinics in Boston settlement houses, service to Student Council, Senior Album committee, or class groups, form the concrete daily routine of the Brooks House. Dwight Hall represents the clash of the conservative ambition of timid national organizations with a changed student mind, too filled with the sober religion of undergraduate activity to be receptive...
...which charged that in common with all other diamond companies it had agreed to sell only to the Syndicate, that because of newly discovered fields the Syndicate had so lowered the price paid United Diamonds that the company was ruined. Included among the accusations was a charge of fraud. Settlement of the suit announced last month from the King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud did exist. It could not cheer Solomon Joel to believe...
...recommendation to approve The Hague settlement is being moved by members of the government majority, which is generally regarded as being hostile to peace...