Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part the decline may be explained as due to the usual exporting of American crops, especially high priced cotton. But it is obvious that the recent political ferment in Germany, the uncertainty as to the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, and the threatened breach between England and Italy on the one hand, and France on the other, have provided the basis for heavy speculative liquidation of European currencies in many of the world's exchange markets. In addition, there has probably been some shifting of European funds to New York for safekeeping, as well as speculative purchases of dollars...
...Buzfuz" was what Mr. Untermyer called Mr. Steuer, referring to the ingenious lawyer whom Dickens devised to send Mr. Pickwick to prison for breach of promise?because a. lady had fainted in his arms...
...have heard from my learned friend, gentlemen' continued Sergeant Buzfuz, ' that this is an action for a breach of promise of marriage.... But you have not heard?inasmuch as it did not come within my learned friend's province to tell you what are the facts of the case. Those facts you shall hear detailed by me and proved by the unimpeachable female whom I will place in the box before...
...Guevara is the Washington representative of the popular party of the Filippino assembly and next to Manuel Quegon is the foremost leader in his party. His party's friction with the Wood administration, which developed into an open breach nearly a month ago, has not lessened, but daily becomes rather more pronounced and more determined. As a result of winning for its candidate the senatorship of the district which contains Manila, the most important senatorial office in the Philippines, Guevara's party feels that it has the Philippines behind it in its policy of opposition to General Wood...
...pressmen struck because of a long-standing grievance. It was, however, an outlaw strike in breach of contract. President Berry of the International Union dischartered the local, and made a new wage agreement on more liberal terms with the newspapers. The outlawed union's members were invited to resume work as members of the International Union, but, thoroughly angered, refused. One man was killed working for the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Reporters who tried to attend the strikers' meetings were roughly expelled...