Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seated near the back of the hall: "I demand a written statement of the proposals which are being moved and debated. ... It is proposed that the Council be enlarged by three semipermanent seats at the same time that Germany is admitted to a new permanent seat. I deplore the creation of semi-permanent seats for the aggrandizement of the larger powers over the smaller nations. . . . This is a great price to pay for a compromise among the powers on the admission of Germany...
Sinking Fund. By a docile vote of 420 to 140, the Chamber authorized the creation of an autonomous sinking fund out of which the National Defense bonds and short term Treasury issues will be amortized. The fund is to be fed by the additional inheritance taxes just voted, by a budgetary allowance and from the profits of the enormous state tobacco monopoly. A non-partisan committee of 20 experts will administer the sinking fund, with the object of restoring confidence in the Government's willingness and ability to meet its obligations without hindrance from the Chamber...
...fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity of the Bible as the sure word of God including the Genesis story of Creation, and in historical Christianity as believed in and taught by the Church for the past two thousand years. It is evident from your jocose treatment of time honored standards of belief that you do not want the patronage of those who are not willing to accept the half-baked modern interpretation...
...small, dark, steelyeyed, supple man, whom statesmen often dub "the first diplomat in Europe," whose accomplishments would stagger belief were they not chronicled in post-War history books. Dr. Edouard Benes*; was an essential instrument in: 1) The partition of Austria-Hungary after the War. 2) The creation of Czechoslovakia as a state. 3) The drafting of the League Protocol. And in the creation of the Little Entente (See INTERNATIONAL, p. 9) his was the master hand...
...point is money. Up to 1921, the Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into which money would not enter. Since 1921 a reversal of this policy has resulted in the creation of a new State Bank and the introduction of the Tchervonets (plural "Tchervontsy"), a monetary unit equivalent to 10 pre-war gold rubles...