Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Bainbridge Colby, 59, Wilsonian Secretary of State; and a Mrs. Anne Von Ahlstrand Ely, 39, in Brooklyn. Last month he was divorced at Reno by Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, from whom he had sought divorce in Paris; with whom he had a $1,500-per-month agreement to keep her from ridiculing him in her writings...
Said he: "Our arrangements, if completed, should give profitable employment to tens of thousands of Britons." Viscount D'Abernon's "arrangements" were: 1) an agreement with Argentina by which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...
...that is not too proud to monopolize, business done with Herr Kreuger is good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash and then repays the loan by a tax on matches. As for the match-users, they get excellent matches and the price is fixed by an agreement between Herr Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make a large loan investment...
...obstreperous Parliament the eight-hour day, universal suffrage, tax reform and the temperance law.* After adjourning for one day to mourn Belgium's Delacroix, the bankers got back to their ballroom, soon rounded out a major portion of their labors by announcing that they had reached agreement in principle on the following attributes of the Bank for International Settlements (now begin ning to be called the "Young Bank"). Capital to be $100,000,000 as envisioned in the Young Plan. Board of Governors to comprise: first, six Governors ("Bix Six") representing the central banks of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany...
Stumpers. There was no agreement last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving...