Word: effected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bankers were not carelessly openhanded. Said they, in effect: "You can have all the dollars you need, if you get mail contracts, if you start to build your ships. Show us the prospects of profits. And German bankers must co-operate...
...news that he had been offered by a Mrs. R. B. Stevenson of El Paso, Tex., both tuition and board at M. I. T., where he had really wanted to go. Said he: "It would be foolish of me to refuse. . . . I shall notify the Edison Co. to that effect. . . ." Thus it came to pass that the Brightest Boy in the U. S.- Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., winner of the Edison contest-will have as his classmate and scholarly competitor one of the Second Brightest Boys. When they emerge from M. I. T. four years hence (if both...
Midnight was the hour at which there came automatically into effect the new Tacna-Arica Treaty (TIME, May 27) by which the disputed province of Tacna-Arica is partitioned, Chile keeping Arica and ceding Tacna to Peru. To make this transfer doubly binding, doubly impressive, Government property in Tacna Province was divided into 138 parcels, each to be signed over separately. As midnight tolled, the pen-scratching tournament began...
Senor Gonzalo Robles, who has been Mayor of Tacna City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...
Merger of the National Park Bank and Chase National Bank of New York (TIME, June 24) went into effect. Celebrating the event, the merged bank (Chase National), now having 31 offices, three abroad and 28 in New York City, announced that it now has $242,069,453 of capital funds (surplus and undivided profits...