Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finances were chaotic. The Government had no money on hand for its work; the foreign obligations were a tangled mess, and a complete reorganization necessarily was decided upon. A new national bank was formed and given the privilege of coining money and carrying out the Treasury functions of the Government. The contract between the Haitians and the bank provided that disputes were to be settled by arbitration and that there was to be no diplomatic intervention. The bank was originally a French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise...
...high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...