Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immediate payment of a tax of 279,000,000 francs ($15,000,000) due for the period Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. All taxes are to be paid into a "productive pledge fund" under the control of the Reparations Commission...
...Press. With 90% of the British Press in the hands of Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook (TiME, Oct. 22), they are possessed of more power to control the fate of the election than any other men. Despite the fact that as a business enterprise they are at one, it became evident that there were some differences in their political views...
...decision of the Council of Ambassadors not to ask for the extradition of the ex-Crown Prince from Germany and to reestablish the authority of the Allied Military Control in Germany was made the subject of a vote of confidence in which the Chamber of Deputies upheld Premier Poincare by 506 votes to 70, and virtually gave him leave to press Germany " Allies or no Allies...
...Tangiers dispute now rages be tween France, Britain, Italy, Spain ; some other nations have ancillary interests. The bone of contention is: Who will govern Tangiers on the north Moroccan coast, now under international control? For various reasons the Powers have never been able to settle this question and the dispute has lasted intermittently since 1906 (TIME, July...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...