Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Prosser seemed to sense that he "was going to be served with a summons," said Poindexter, "and he knew about my coming marriage. So he called me up to the podium and gave me $5 'for a wedding gift'," and the constable gave Prosser the snmmons...
...office in Yokohama. She explained that she had read that her husband, convicted of chopping off a prisoner's head, had just been hanged. From a bundle she took out a silver cigarette case. Bowing, she said: "I have come all the way from Osaka to offer this gift to the Americans in gratitude for the fair trial my husband received...
...Argentina. This figure was based on the hope that Argentina would stop charging $5 a bushel for wheat. In a special press conference last week, President Peron himself threw down any such hope. Argentina had to have such a price, he explained, because half its wheat went as a gift to countries (e.g., France, Italy and Spain) that cannot pay. Argentina's net return was thus more like half the $5 price...
...United States Government is offering us a gift of 280 million dollars. Beware of this gift . . . 280 million dollars worth of merchandise will be dumped on France. Certain branches of our industry will have to die . . . America will start meddling in our business. . . . Hundreds of thousands of tradesmen and shopkeepers will end miserably in bankruptcy. . . . It is not the Communist Party that wants to expropriate you-it is the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Du Fonts. We, the Communists, have always respected private property and savings. . . . The Communist Party stands by the people of France in their fight against the American...
...Ross also made a recent gift of a Corean painting of the XV century which has been placed in the upper corridor...