Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long tables Conference secretaries had placed what seemed to be treaties and agreements, each open at the last page for signatures. Jostling and squabbling the statesmen scrambled to squiggle. Delegates of several countries who had told the Conference they would not sign the Treaty on Women's Equal Civil & Political Rights rushed up to it with pens poised and were only stopped from signing by pickets hostile to the Treaty who kept loudly calling it by name. In the squash and rush, dozens of delegates signed in apparent ignorance of a remarkable discovery by Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Alberto...
...promise to sign later, after appropriate investigation, such of five peace pacts sponsored by Argentina as they have not signed already (TIME, Dec. 25). It was the sole binding act performed by the U. S. Delegation at the Conference. Left unsigned by the U. S. was the Treaty on Equal Nationality Rights for Women...
...China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field of textiles, threatens to drive European products from the market. The Italian outburst is typical of world feeling toward Japan; England, seeing her textile market in India ruined by the infiltration of Japanese...
...Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. on the basis of an annual disbursement of $3.20 a share, a dividend should be declared at the June meeting of your board of directors. I would suggest, therefore, that it would be in order for your board to declare a quarterly dividend equal to 20% annually. . . . Please be good enough to promptly confirm this arrangement. . . ." And its reply: "As you are aware, a dividend of this amount has not been earned. In ad dition to that, the trust company is setting up no reserves and we feel that it is not as it should...
...week James Cash Penney had reason to think Floridans ingrates. Fifty-three unhappy City National depositors, who had received only 32? on the dollar, sued Mr. Penney for $132,000. They charged that Boardchairman Penney "did fraudulently and unlawfully acquire to himself or transfer to others" an amount precisely equal to what Mr. Penney had put in-$3,000,000. Furthermore, said the depositors, Mr. Penney had known all along that his bank was insolvent, had seen to it that the bulk of Penney deposits was withdrawn before the bank went under. Young Jim Penney went to Wyoming...