Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris Chamber of Commerce, Alexandre Millerand, President of the Republic, declared that the Government would not borrow any more money, would undertake no further expenditure without corresponding receipts. He called upon all French citizens to aid the Government by accepting the new temporary tax burdens (TIME, Feb. 18 et...
...Italian elections were announced for April 6. There are 1,354 candidates and 535 seats. Under the new electoral law (TIME, May 28 et seq.), 356 of this number will receive two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies; the remaining 998 will battle for the remaining one-third, or 179 seats...
...Committee of Experts (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.), whose chairman is the renowned General Dawes, whose function is to report upon the means of stabilizing the German currency and of balancing the German budget, began to draft its final report...
House of Lords. Their Lordships began debate on the retention of the imperial preference duties agreed to during the Imperial Conference of last year (TIME, Oct. 1 et seq.)-The Duke of Devonshire, ex-Governor General of Canada, uttered a solemn warning when he declared that there was a feeling of uneasiness in the Dominions and that imperial preference could not be separated from the whole imperial policy...
After three weeks of embittered bickerings over the Emergency Taxation Bill, which is to give the Government power to enforce taxation by decree (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.), the Government closed discussion and the bill was passed by a majority of 136 votes. It has now to go to the Senate. It was hoped that the bill would, if passed, become law by March...