Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He got it. Overnight all 1,000-and 500-rupiah notes were arbitrarily cut to one-tenth of their value (though smaller bills were not changed); 90% of every bank deposit over 25,000 rupiahs was frozen, so that the money could be seized for obligatory long-term loans to...
A U.S. District Court last week ordered Venezuelan ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez to stick close to his Miami Beach mansion for 60 days so that he can be in court when his successors make their case for extraditing him on charges of murder, embezzlement and...
If Kearns thought his argument would tranquilize Canadian concern, some sharp editorial retorts soon gave him reason to think otherwise. "That is the wrong tone to use, even with economic vassals," snapped the Toronto Star. "Canadians are perfectly aware that U.S. capital comes in here because this is a profitable...
A calmer reaction came from the Ottawa Journal: "If Mr. Kearns had taken the trouble to consult a few informed, responsible people, in Toronto, he would have avoided being 'shocked,' would have discovered that the Canadians who are crying havoc about U.S. investment are the sort of people...
Later at a press conference, the bishop explained that it was not Harris' "near-Catholic trimmings and trappings" he objected to, but his departure from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "In the Church of England there is a considerable degree of liberty allowed to the clergy in interpretation...