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...five months many of the most aristocratic names in Hungary have been befouled by political scandal, as princes, bishops and even the chief of police of Budapest have been implicated one by one in a gigantic plot to forge 30 billion French francs and expend them in financing the return by violence of the Habsburg dynasty to Hungary (TIME...
Throughout Japan the local police vainly attempted to suppress "loud-wailing parties" (Aigo) indulged in by friends of the late (TIME, April 19, MILESTONES) Emperor Yi of Korea (deposed 1910). The Japanese Cabinet voted to expend 100,000 yen ($47,000) upon a stupendous funeral, to be held over his remains...
Last week the carpenter was outraged to discover that his hero's salary as Premier is but 90,000 francs a year. Vexed and eager to right what he considered a wrong, the carpenter straightway despatched 1,000 francs ($33) to M. Briand, with the request that he expend it as "pocket money...
...steamed away 15 battleships followed. Observers opined that the numerous provincial Fascist secretaries who accompanied him will fire many an inland Italian with the desire to emigrate to Tripoli. There they may purchase an acre of land for the equivalent of $1, upon signing an agreement to expend the equivalent of $30 in improving it during the next ten years...
...Chief leave the congress without learning of the latest, distinctively U.S. contribution to the war on crime. It is an experiment for which Mr. Collier will personally expend $50,000. It is a series of advertisements which are to dominate the traction lines and billboards of New York and perhaps be extended to other cities...