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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baron Maurice Houtart. At present the total "legal liability" of Germany to the allies stands fixed at 132 billion gold marks by the so-called "London Ultimatum" of 1921; but no one dreams that so huge a sum will ever be paid in full and the Dawes Plan functions ad interim to limit the sums which can be exacted from Germany in a given year...
Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...
...indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...
...Brancusi, you will not put a want ad in the papers telling God it will be to His advantage to come around to see you; ... if God is saving a corner for any battling bag of bones, there will be one for you, Brancusi...
...play is largely a talk fest dealing with such stuff as the cruel 'ard capitalists, the workingman's brotherhood, bread and betrayed daughters, etc. ad infinitum...