Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal with the issue of village irregularities King Albert summoned the Cabinet Council, the august body which decided last year that Belgium could not and would not attempt to make her War debt payment of $2,125,000 to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 26). The Council will hear flustered Minister Poullet's explanation of his acts, was expected by many Belgians last week to accept his resignation...
Belief. Does Japan already have a secret war chest-tons of gold bullion salted down before her yen went off the gold standard? (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Rumors persist in Tokyo that this treasure exists, but such secrets are always well kept. To this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers...
...decline to answer!" snapped the British Government's spokesman, but tough Reza Shah Pahlevi's morale was not shaken. He ignored Britain's ultimatum, let Dec. 15 pass, sent his Minister of Justice speeding to Geneva where, most fortunately, the League Council told off famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perennial Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," to try to calm the Persians and the British...
Sensitive folk were just as well pleased when the League of Nations suppressed much of its white slavery report covering Western countries (TIME, Dec. 19. 1927). Last week in Geneva China's League Delegate and onetime Premier, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, voiced "Chinese appreciation" when the League published in full its 529-page report on Eastern prostitution...
Robert Emmet Dowling, Manhattan financier, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co., filling the vacancy left by the late Darwin Pearl Kingsley. President Buckner revealed that Calvin Coolidge's last official letter to the company was one dated Dec. 28, expressing satisfaction at Director Dowling's acceptance of the invitation...