Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reasons for Leniency. The reason that Senator Smoot and other members of the Debt Commission were willing to grant Italy such lenient terms was simple: They did not believe she could pay more. Her soil is not fertile enough to give Italy a big export surplus of agricultural products. She has very little in the way of natural resources. She has very high taxes and few wealthy people. All she has is cheap labor, and cheap laborers are very poor people from whom to raise taxes...
...scene of one of the mad scrambles for gold which sent so many adventurers flocking to New Zealand. Now it has grown decorous, sprouted an embryo culture. As the Exposition got under way local citizens announced with pride that they had financed the whole venture except for a grant of ?25,000 from the Dominion Government...
...dominates a be-fountained lagoon, serves as a focus for the Expositional activities, and is expected to reverberate nightly to the syncopations of the noted Argyll and Sutherland jazz band, which New Zulanders boast of having lured from London at a cost ?5,000 greater than the total Dominion grant to the Exposition...
...imply voluntary recognition of the Treaty of Versailles by Germany." The Council of Ambassadors±± at Paris hedged at setting a definite date for the evacuation of Cologne, and much as he wished to do so Herr Stresemann could not give "proofs" that the Allies are going to grant the concessions* promised Germany at Locarno...
...Powers represented at the Customs Conference signified "on principle" their willingness to grant China customs autonomy in return for the abolition of "likin...