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...Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior claims of the Pioneer Oil Company-which was to receive $1,000,000 in settlement from Sinclair. He further declared that he received this one-eighth interest gratis. The Senators became more and more 'dumbfounded...
...Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, denied that, in appointing a committee to reconsider the British national debt, the Govern-ment had any intention of altering the Anglo-American debt funding settlement...
...flow as the heavy hand of oppression comes down, but a movement of 300,000,000 people can never be extinguished." Mr. Hossain pointed to what has happened in Ireland. "There was a time when England might have quieted Ireland easily," he continued, "when a rational settlement would have been accepted. But a nation, irritated and embittered by centuries of misery and oppression, is not in a frame of mind to agree to a compromise, whether rational...
Europe. "The prospect of a European settlement has arisen which holds some promise. Three Americans of outstanding and well-seasoned ability have been called to give their expert assistance and advice. They do not represent our Government. Their only official standing comes from their being agents of the Reparation Commission...
...Licensed Tugmen's Protective Association of the Great Lakes. In 1908 he became President of the International Longshoremen's Association. He held that post during the longshoremen's strike which lasted from March to October in 1919. He tried to bring about a peaceful settlement. He approved the ultimatum of the Shipping Board to the longshoremen, was tried by the union for favoring the shipowners-and was acquitted. About the time that the strike was settled he declared: "If everyone of the 40,000 longshoremen in the port of New York vote to remain out on strike...