Word: guaranteee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British reaction to the proposal was clearly unfavorable. The stipulation that Britain must stabilize her currency was alone considered enough to defeat it. Next His Majesty's delegates examined the Canadian figures of $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 in trade offered them, found the estimate to be...
Australia and Great Britain at another end of the table began dickering for an agreement whereby Britain would receive free entry of her manufactured goods in exchange for a guarantee of Australia' refunding loan on her two-and-one-half billion dollar debt.
For good measure the Dail voted numerous extraordinary powers to the Government before finally adjourning. "I will guarantee that these powers will not be abused," promised Mr. De Valera. "We are not anxious to extend the area of friction and this friction was not caused by us!"
Home in Hollywood from travels around the world Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin unfolded a plan to relieve the Depression: "The Allied Committee on War Reparations has agreed it will receive from Germany about $35,000,000,000 in War reparations. But Germany says she cannot pay. Very well, then let...
Legislative Hobby: a bill to guarantee national bank deposits. He argues that citizens should not be asked to risk their money in institutions chartered by the Federal Government and sponsored by the Federal Reserve, any more than the Treasury which requires banks to put up bonds to protect its deposits...