Word: defaultations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bratianos have thus become politically invisible for a time, leaving the present Government irresponsible for their sins: 1) suppression of over 100 revolutionary movements begun by the people of Bessarabia to free themselves from the Rumanian yoke; 2) systematic encouragement of Rumanians who desire to default debts owed to the U.S. and other countries' business concerns; 3) exploitation of the peasant class in the interest of great landholders such as the Bratianos...
...nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind of a life that everyone yearns for at some time of his life, and, in all candor, would rather read than the novels that used to be labelled 'problem' and are now called "stark and gripping...
...Union tennis tournament started last Monday with 95 entrants, 20 more than last year. The first round matches in both singles and doubles are to be played off by tonight under penalty of default. The draws have been posted at the Union and at Harry Cowles's Squash Shop, at 85 Mt. Auburn Street...
Since Boris III, King of the Bulgarians, is a bachelor his eldest sister, Princess Eudoxia, 28, has had thrust upon her by default the duties if not the title of a queen. Eudoxia, by temperament melancholy and reserved, is little known to foreigners. Therefore when the Berlin National Zeitung began to publish her "memoirs," last week, a mild sensation rippled...
...eminent over Germany a new super-Dawes work harness. Already there is a whispered possibility that Germany may not be able to meet in full the stupendous two billion gold mark Dawes payment to the U. S. due in 1927-28. What then? Assumedly the dismaying possibility of partial default may be staved off by U. S. loans to Germany with which German reparations can be paid -at the cost of envassaling German industry to U. S. or at least non-German bankers. The machinery or "producer-goods" security for such loans would then become literally a foreign mortgaged harness...