Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Republic, a law can be passed by popular referendum in the following steps: 1) A vote of 1/10th of the entire German electorate (4,000,000 ballots) assures the immediate consideration of the law by the Reichstag. 2) If the Reichstag refuses to pass the law, it may still be made effective by holding a second referendum in which the ballots of 50% of the electorate (20,000,000) are necessary for ratification. "Liberty Law." Because the Treaty of Versailles postulates Germany's sole War guilt and then lays upon her the burden of Reparations, some hot-headed...
...efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development may now, all of a sudden be cut off. A referendum has been introduced which . . . seeks to create an appearance that Germany could now force her wishes and demands on the victors in the World War. . . . "The entire referendum is based on transparent dishonesty. It is based on the wild claim...
...more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered and grumbled. When a peasant does not sow and reap on all his land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed a "collectivist farm," and thereafter worked by communized cultivators who may or may not include the former owner. Last week the Government announced that 3% of all peasant farms in Russia have been thus collectivized. Five million communized yokels now toil on 60,000 collective farms...
Mexico: A husband who kills his rival or a wife who kills her rival shall not be liable to any punishment, but the killing shall be recorded, and, should the same killer slay a second rival, he or she may be tried for murder...
Marmon Motors Co., down from 104 to 36.* Bear argument: Earnings, quarter ending May 31, 1929, $4.12; quarter ending Aug. 31, 17?. Poor outlook for all motors. United Corp., down from 75½ to 49¾* Bear argument: General inflation of utilities, exemplified by the Boston Edison case (TIME...