Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate over Article X was lively. Isahn Bey, deputy for Jebel Bereyet and President of the First Tribunal of Independence, declared that resistance to the admission of women to equal rights was foolish, as in ten years women would certainly be members of the Assembly...
...when the Senate Public Lands Committee discovered that ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall had received an unsecured loan of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny about a year before Naval Reserve No. 1 was leased to one of Mr. Doheny's companies. Since then nothing of equal importance has come to light. The investigation has wandered far afield digging up new tidbits to set scandalous tongues wagging for another day, after which a new name or new names were discovered to be be-oiled. Last week's 'daily contributions included: ¶ The discovery that Edward...
...last few years as a result of recent War conditions abroad. The several new governments set up by the Treaty of Versailles naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones. The Republic of Lavia adopted the "lat," equal to a gold French franc, or 19.3? in U. S. money. The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value. Lithuania, however, in establishing its new standard coin, the "lit," fixed its value as equal to 10? in U. S. money. Poland beginning Jan. 1, 1924, introduced...
...silver "shilling," following British precedents, as British bankers were so instrumental in helping her stabilize her former "krone." In place of the practically worthless mark Germany has similarly adopted the "retenmark," nominally worth one gold mark, or 23.80. The Russians, deeming their former roubles hopeless, have issued the "chervonetz" equal to ten gold roubles, or $5.15. And now Hungary has followed suit by replacing its old "krone" with a new currency called the "sparkrone...
...year by all men eligible for the Eli University crew this spring. It is this year's experience under Leader's system whch gives Yale a great advantage. Harvard crew men must do a great deal more work than Eli oarsmen in order to meet the latter on equal terms this June...