Word: kickback
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...expressions. As for M. Tannery and the regents of the Bank of France last week, what they were actually getting at was not entirely clear. A new Cabinet of the Left Centre took office in Paris fortnight ago, and if devaluation or inflation or "panic" should come soon the kickback from enraged French voters, who will be polling two months hence in a general election, might restore the Right to power, greatly to the satisfaction of the regents. Whatever Governor Tannery thought he was doing last week, such proposals as his scheme to check hoarding by handing out gold coins...
Statesmen thought that the strong-minded and purposeful Ministress would ignore this final kickback from her Mexican adventure. She remains in good standing with the Soviet government, which returned her last month to her original and favorite diplomatic post: the Soviet legation in Oslo, Norwegian capital. There King Haakon did not hesitate to receive her as persona, grata...