Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan. Late last week precise, efficient Sir Josiah Stamp, head of the British Delegates, busied himself with the actual mechanical details of writing out and rushing to the printers the final draft of the agreement, known to the delegates as Draft C. Beyond that there remained only the affixing of the delegates' signatures and its submission to and (presumably) ratification by the governments of England, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the U. S. and Germany. The final obstacle-the Belgian franc business-seemed to have disappeared when Germany solemnly pledged herself to settle the War currency question before Sept.1, when...
...Dawes Plan of 1924 fixed the annual sum Germany must pay her creditors (595 million dollars) but left undecided the total sum, or the number of years in which final payment was to be made...
Concessions. At its final acceptance last week, the plan included the following important concessions to Germany...
With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...