Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some property belonging to the University will be sold for non-payment of taxes by the City of Boston...
...three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will go into effect as soon as it is ratified by both Parliaments, will run for three years...
...after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery for parliamentary approval of the accord...
...conference with representatives of railroad operators and workers. Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage of the Long & Short Haul Bill, Government payment of full rates for its traffic on land-grant roads. Reiterating his opposition to a subsidy and his belief that many roads should "go through the wringer," Chairman Wheeler disbanded the conference with an announcement that while it would be possible to put through emergency legislation at this session...
...from March 1937, and 2) last week's action of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Having lost $4,000,000 in the first two months of 1938, against a profit of $468,000 for the same period in 1937, the Santa Fe announced it would defer payment of 2% interest on its 4% adjustment mortgage bonds of 1995. This was no default because the interest is not due until November 1 and then only if earned, but the Santa Fe has made a practice of paying part of it on May 1. When last week it said it would...