Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President announced to news gatherers a Treasury surplus of $390,000,000 for this year. Lest business men should trim their budgets in expectation of another tax cut, Mr. Coolidge hastily added that back taxes collected this year total $350,000,000, that no such large back tax surplus is expected next year, that to cut taxes further would not be "constructive economy...
...dollar. The cost of living was announced as having risen 10% in France within two months. Finance Minister Péret, disheartened at his failure to peg the franc, resigned. Deputies of the Right, theoretically foes of Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could not be accomplished with the freak support...
...onetime Kaiserin, Auguste Victoria, arrived on the same day, much broken down in health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
...Lest this should seem a modicum of accomplishment to crown the labors of many men for almost a month, there was also drafted, passed and recorded a definition of "potentials of war." This voluminous document contained all the pigs, fogs, birth rates, etc. . . . etc. . . . etc. . . . originally proposed for inclusion under "armaments...
When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...