Word: deposition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their passage money (usually about $100), both sums to be given over to the immigrants. With 1,800 immigrants involved, the fines aggregated over half a million dollars. The lines, of course, protested, to no avail. Since the transgressing ships could not get clearance papers unless a large deposit were paid against the forthcoming fines, the lines had little choice. The Baltic-American line was the first to pay, depositing under protest $100,000 in order that the Estonia (which arrived 15 seconds early) might sail...
...Greek Government to deposit 50,000,000 lire (about $2,500, 000) in a foreign bank as a guarantee for whatever indemnity the Council shall ultimately fix. (Italy asked 50,000,000 lire outright indemnity...
There was signed in the Diplomatic Room of the U. S. State Department the procès-verbaux of the deposit of the ratification of the Five Power Naval Treaty, concluded at Washington February 6, 1922, and of the Four Power Pacific Treaty concluded at Washington December 13, 1921. These procès-verbaux were signed as follows...
There were nominated at Dublin, capital of the Irish Free State, some 400 candidates for 153 seats in the Dail Eireann or Irish Chamber of Deputies. All parties put up scores of candidates and in spite of the ?150 deposit required there were no withdrawals...
...indication that his business will be honestly handled because of the severe rules of that institution regarding business conduct. Moreover, the customer cannot afford to take the letters of recommendation issued by banks regarding stock brokers too seriously, for the big bucketshops sometimes keep larger sums of money on deposit with a bank than a legitimate brokerage firm. They can afford to do this, since they do not carry stocks and therefore do not need their money in their business, as an honest house does. Oftentimes the banker knows little of practical stock brokerage; he sees simply a large deposit...