Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to her. So I got it on a lease for my lifetime at 300 francs a year [$12]. Now she thinks when I die that perhaps the Government would like to buy it. So in that case she will put on a large price and make money out of the last home of Clémenceau." Chuckling, he added, "When I tell her I am feeling ill she is quite cheerful, and when I tell her I am in good health she is very sad. A very curious old lady...
...Marveled at the silence of female M. P.'s after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
...Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Under the treaty of 1924 we have the right to keep Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...
...position as before. The difference of four meals is absurdly out of proportion with the one dollar reduction in price of the new proposal. In other words the man who selects the lower rate will have to pay an average of $.25 for the four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly in accord with the spirit of democracy supposed to be essential to the House idea...
...early days of experimentation. A virtual subsidy of this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully favor...