Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communist strike in the Ruhr was settled by a grant of 50% increase to the workers. This is only half what they wanted, and the value of the " raise" is insignificant when considered in ratio to the fall of the mark from 58,826 to 79,300 to the dollar-all within a single week...
Responding to pressure from home and abroad Stanley Baldwin will play, it is said, a major part at the corning Reparation Conference, which will be held toward the end of this month, according to present arrangements. Premier Baldwin's scheme is to grant terms of payment to Germany along the lines of those granted to Great Britain by the United States. It is pointed out that if the richest country in Europe wants 62 years to pay off its war debt, Germany should at least be entitled to the same length of time. Baldwin will bring forward his plan...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to deliver the oration at the P. B. K. Day exercises to be held in Sanders Theatre at 11.30 on Friday, June 22. Mr. Christopher Morley has been chosen poet and Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery '91 chaplain for the ceremony. Judge Robert Grant '73, president of the Harvard Chapter, will preside...
...similar ships could be built new for $12,000,000 each. The conclusion was obvious: $8,000,000 apiece was too much for reconditioning. Instead, the Board announced its intention of asking Congress for money to build two new ships. It is more or less problematic whether Congress will grant the money and sink more money in the expensive business of ship owning, which at present is popularly supposed to be costing the Government $50,000,000 a year...
...poles all of which but one were swept from their foundation and were supported only by the lines of sagging wires. The one sturdy pole was doing more than its share in keeping the lines in order. "Today", he concluded, "the wires of civilization are sagging down. The Lord grant that the United States be strong enough to carry more than its portion of the burdens of the world--only so can we complete the work of our gallant dead...