Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the postponement was said to be that the Russians could not come to a decision concerning the method of paying their pre-War debt. More important still is the fact that the Soviet Government cannot now obtain on their own terms the big loan that it hoped to raise in London. The British Government let it be known that there could be no thought of a Government guarantee for any loan made to Russia. This means that the Bolsheviki in London will have to negotiate direct with British bankers who, according to recent statements, will not lend Russia...
...recognition of Russia being at present out of the question, London is the only place in the world where Russia can obtain the large credits requisite to her reconstruction. The situation was therefore one of extreme seriousness for the Bolsheviki and it was probably because of the gravity of the present stage of negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur...
...length was regarded as legitimate prey and Londoners took it all with marked good humor. One body of men who quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo-American breweries compensation for losses sustained through Prohibition." Earl Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, was elected President of the League...
...contraception. In reply the Minister said that a clear distinction must be made between allowing access to knowledge and actually distributing it. He said that public opinion was not so definite as to permit State-aided institutions to do more than to direct people to places where they might obtain information. To do more than this will require an act of Parliament...
...succeeds, all right; if it fails, Parliament will be suppressed and its place taken by other vehicles of Government. . . . We must, therefore, do everything in our power to govern along new lines and to strive to make the Italian Chamber a model of Parliamentary institutions. Revolutions often obtain results different from those they at first intended. It is, therefore, possible that Fascismo, which began in opposition to Parliament, may lead to a new period of splendor of Parliament...