Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claiming from us payment not of a debt of commerce but of war. You know, as we do, that our treasury is empty. In such a case the debtor must sign promissory notes, and that is just what you are asking us to do, and yet each of us ought to believe that settlement in cash will be made on the day fixed...
...Plan designed to facilitate reparations transfers. Just as the Dawes plan was protested at first but accepted as a working proposal," said Mr. Harvey, "so will this plan be accepted. . . . The public will not be consulted about putting it into action." The Dawes Revisions Scheme, as outlined, proposes the payment of German reparations in "producers goods," such as mining machinery, which it is proposed to install, for example, in French Morocco, thereby giving employment to French workers. Should Germany pay in "consumers goods", shoes for example, numerous French shoemakers would be thrown out of work. The cost of financing concerns...
...crime and to catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen and his platoon to remain on duty, will guarantee them some wages out of the pledged $10,000 until police court and traffic fines and city license fees will bring sufficient money into the city treasury for full payment. Warren's present beggary is the catastrophe to overspending which U. S. municipalities do not seem capable of resisting. Last year local governments assessed taxes of $5,100,000,000, an increase of 76% over those of 1919. But even this huge sum (the highest Federal taxes ever levied...
Simultaneously M. Caillaux received from Washington assurances that the U. S. will not, in the event of ratification of the Franco-U. S. debt accord, throw any bonds received in payment on the security markets of the world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
...From Scot and Lot, a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to those householders who were assessed to any payment (such as tallage, aid etc.) made by the borough for local or national purposes...