Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austrian Parliament resounded last week with furious criticisms of the Italian Administration of Lower Tyrol. This province, which Italians call the Higher Adige, was transferred by post-War treaties from Austria-Hungary to Italy. Last week in the Austrian Parliament deputies Kold and Abrams of Higher Tyrol, which is still Austrian, luridly described the sufferings of Lower Tyrolese under Il Duce's regime of impetuous Italianization...
Cried Deputy Abrams "beautiful women are incarcerated without cause in the prisons [of Lower Tyrol] and are released only when they have surrendered their chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold revamped in detail the familiar fact that Italianization of the Lower Tyrol (or Higher Adige) has been ruthlessly carried out, even to the extent of altering from German into Italian the very names of streets and the lettering on tableware in formerly Austrian hotels...
These charges are familiar, but what gave them weight last week was a statement by Chancellor of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel. He rose in the Austrian Parliament and declared "The treatment of the Lower Tyroleans is in our opinion incompatible with minority rights, and is a hindrance to further amicable relations between Austria and Italy, which are very desirable." To explain and excuse the Austrian Parliament's outspoken criticism of Italian Administration of the Lower Tyrol, Chancellor Seipel shrewdly added "the Italian Government must realize that there is quite a difference between interference in another nation's domestic...
Financial historians noted further that the new bond issue (yielding 5.75%) replaced a previous issue which yielded 7.60%. Would other French issues be called and replaced by bonds at lower interest yields? Yes, in all probability. But, strangely enough, there remain only two French issues which are callable, and both of them small, one for $10,000,000 and one for $4,000,000. The rest of the $500,000,000 in French bonds owned in the U. S. are non-callable-a grievous slip on the part of the French financiers who negotiated the sale of their bonds. They...
...Gentlemen, my invariable rule is to lower the grade of any man whom I interview about his examination." The professor beamed benevolently. "My assist ants in the course, I find, are less, shall we say, ha ha, harsh. So that if anyone cares to talk with them in the lower corridor of Sever between 5.30 and 6.45 next Saturday afternoon, he will find them not only cordial but disinterested...