Word: kronen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bast was locked in jail without bail for four months until five officials of the U. S. Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in Copenhagen and got him released on bail (December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found guilty of fraudulently converting 182,000 kronen ($47,320) of charity funds and sentenced to three months in prison. Other charges were not supported or were withdrawn...
...Report on Austrian finances approved. Austria was given authority to use 88,000,000 gold kronen ($17,600,000) to electrify the Federal railways...
...railwaymen went on strike because they wanted more money, in the aggregate 250,000,000,000 kronen ($3,571,000). Herr Gunther, President of the Federal Railways, refused the men's demands on the ground that they were impossible to meet, owing to the rigid economy prescribed by the Government in adherence to the League of Nations program of reconstruction. Unable to effect a settlement, Herr Gunther resigned as President...
...sort of reciprocity scheme to give immediate and efficient help to artists in distress in Vienna has been put into practice and is said to have proved a success. A number of influential citizens have combined to guarantee a certain sum a month, each one contributing 300,000 kronen (about $4.20). "This money is to supply artists, who in exchange are bound to place their work at half price- fixed in mutual agreement-at the disposal of the members of the Society. The money resulting from sales is used to pay back the amount obtained by the artists...
...Government employees in the Post and Telegraph Offices, having been refused increases in salaries and Christmas bonuses amounting to about 11,000,000,000 kronen, went on strike...