Word: cancellations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe that Britain "is willing to cancel all War debts, but, since the U. S. will not join us, we are obliged to collect enough to meet our American obligations...
...balanced against, nor added to, a debt owing by another, which is what Britain and France have tried to do. Belgium has evidently decided to pay; although, in the words of Foreign Minister Vandervelde, leader of the Socialist Party, "this engagement [i.e. President Wilson's engagement to cancel the War debt of Belgium] is a moral engagement, which a great people cannot evade without moral damage to itself...
...suggestion of Sir Josiah Stamp at the Brussels meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce (see Page 5), that the U. S. reduce its tariffs and curtail production in order to facilitate German reparations payments. He regarded such an act as making this country pay reparations and partly cancel debts owing...
...situation in outline was as follows: To assist the coal trade by reducing production costs and to decrease the ever-swelling army of unemployed, the mine owners decided to cancel a national wage agreement with the men and to call for an eight instead of a seven- hour working day. In effect, this raises the workers' weekly earnings...
...first efforts to be funny in celluloid were dismal. Keystone directors feared that he was overpaid, offered to cancel the contract. Chaplin told Roscoe Arbuckle, the now deposed cinema clown, that he needed a pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are, man," he said. "Perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered derby over his ear, twisted the ends of his prim mustache. His face was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk which became, inevitably, a heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers...