Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Minister Doumer proposes to meet all the budget charges, the immediate needs of the Treasury, repayment of Bank of France advances and the creation of a sinking fund for amortization of the floating debt by the following measures...
...further economies and improvement of tax collection; by measures against fraud; by the creation of a tax on exports; by a tax on Bourse operations; by an increase in the price of tobacco and an exceptional temporary tax on payments, the manner of the collection of which will be established by decree...
...Italians of today are the perfect re-creation of the mighty Romans of the past who conquered the world...
...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
Within the palace the laity and clergy greeted each other amiably. Cardinal Cerretti seated himself; watched President Doumergue hand the red hat to Cardinal Dubois; received from Cardinal Dubois the red hat (which the Papal ablegate, Roman Prince Monte Leon, had rushed with the Papal decree of creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince...