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Finance. Development and execution of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan; settlement of inter-Allied debts; no further advances from the Bank of France to the State; no capital levy; no consolidation of bonds, but heavier taxation and a permanently balanced budget...
...Fleurian, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, arrived in Paris for a conference with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. It was announced that, as soon as the German election is over, active negotiations for a settlement of the French debt to Britain will begin...
...misshapen, loutish, by every tuppeny estuary or frail river. The growth must be directed intelligently if the U. S. is to avoid such "atrocities" in city-planning as its present metropoleis. "New York," declaired Robert W. DeForest, "is the world most horrible example. . . ." Boston, planned like a squatter's settlement, cannot recover good form for less than $50,000,000. Washington and Philadelphia, braced in infancy are straighter And the city of the future...
...Department. Realizing that in the criticism that lately has been passed on it, there lay some kind of truth, the members of the committee have started to rebuild their system completely. The fundamental suggestions have already been made in last Friday's conference with the heads of the various settlement houses in Boston. Pervious to that conference, only one side of the matter had been discussed, and that was the side pertaining to the student worker himself. The effect that he produced on the settlement house heads, equally important to a reorganization of the entire system, had not been touched...
...discussion, the general question was reduced to three specific problems: first, the adequate presentation of the significance of social work; second, the difficulty of sustaining individual interest throughout the four years of college; and third, ways and means for increasing the cooperation between the social service committee and the settlement houses...