Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves together into a great unit, the Grain Marketing Company, with capital stock of $51,000,000. Not more than $26,000,000 of this will be outstanding at one time, however. First, to the public is to be sold $25,000,000 of preferred stock. Then gradually an equal amount of preferred stock and a million dollars' worth of common stock are to be sold to bona fide grain-growers. As the farmers buy preferred stock, just so rapidly will the preferred stock of the general public be retired. Executive officers of the companies agree to continue...
...this point that Ellen Graham Bassell appeared on the scene, to become the second Mrs. Davis. Said Town Topics: "In entertaining small talk she is the equal of John William himself, certainly of Robert Lansing, and is entirely comparable to the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson." Besides, she had the reputation of patronizing the best dressmakers in Washington. What is more, Mrs. Davis hits it off quite as well with Mrs. Lansing as her husband did with Mrs. Lansing's husband. The Lansings introduced the Davis's to Washington's inner circle. Then Mr. Lansing spoke well...
...There is no despotism equal to subtracting from a man's holding what he is unwilling to give...
...whereas the Americans are paid dollars, the Filipinos are paid pesos. Pesos are worth 50? each, and the Scouts had discovered that the arrangement worked to their disadvantage. They considered what fitting action should be taken and decided to prepare and to "warrantize" a peace able strike to obtain equal...
...Were the spirit in which Germany understands the report really alive, it would be self-evident to the victorious Nations that Germany, whose economic and National existence are at stake, must finally be admitted to the negotiations as a partner with equal rights. Otherwise, how can the German people make new sacrifices if they feel that once more, as in the fateful June days of 1919, their fate is to be dictated to them by the victorious wielders of power...