Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exerted); scurvy tricks (if they are played at the World Economic Conference); the refusal of the U. S. Congress to cancel another cent (if it refuses)?none of these things alter what are probably the paramount facts: 11 that the U. S. will not fight to collect from the Allies; 2) that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they cannot pay and are determined that they will not pay even the sum of 1¢ on the $1 of their Reparations debt envisioned...
...Lords ¶Passed 22-to-8 (second reading) Danesfort's bill relieving pedestrians of their present burden of proving, before they can collect damages, negligence on the part of a driver who runs them down...
Handback, ruined, is philosophical until he can collect legal proof against Miltiades. Then he starts trouble, mostly for himself. In his frantic search of Miltiades' house for the money, Ponny, whose pulling & groaning at last mean more than obesity, is frightened into a miscarriage and death. Handback finds himself glad to accept Miltiades' trifling settlement...
After intolerable sufferings at home the Dexters, with other Pilgrims, get away to Holland. There they stay for some ten years before they can collect sufficient money, organization and courage to cross the sea. At last, bonded to the speculative Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes...
Each year Reporter Miller accompanies an expedition to the Mexican island Guadalupe to collect elephant seals for the zoo. This capture, though it sounds adventurous, does not excite him much. More exciting are the thousands of wild goats which infest the island, and two men who live there the year round. They slaughter only the billy goats. The hides go to the U. S., the meat to the Mexican Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin...