Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000. Last week a defaulter answered. Hungary announced that on Dec. 15 it would make a payment of $9,828.16, first by a defaulting nation* since Great Britain ceased its "token" payments in 1933. Hungary's payment, also a token, amounted to 22.8? per dollar on the semiannual payment...
...Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias Spinner, drawn to the order of Russian Minister Edward de Stoeckl and dated Aug. 1, 1868. When Alaska's voteless Delegate to Congress, Anthony Dimond, last week asked permission...
...French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise along both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with the secret understanding that the U. S. would pay for the maneuver. After the war and Lincoln's assassination, a new administration made secret payment for Russia's aid impossible. The cost of the naval maneuvers-$5,800,000-was therefore added to the price of the new territory...
Last week the Board of City Trusts at a special meeting voted to rescind the rent reductions, require payment in full of the $200,000 concessions already granted. Be fore they could vote, old Francis Shunk Brown pointedly stalked from the room. Three days later, looking more than ever like a Philadelphia lawyer in a wrinkled black alpaca coat, brown trousers and shoestring tie, Mr. Brown showed up in the City Hall courtroom where the Shapiro committee was sitting. He stormed...
...mutual advantage," then sharing expenses makes a guest a paying passenger; whereas, when the main purpose of the auto trip is the joint pleasure of the participants, passengers are merely guests even if they share the expenses. This is "nothing more than the exchange of social amenities," is not "payment for the transportation." Affirmed the Court: Dr. Walker could recover the lower court's award of $25,000 damages from Partner Adamson; the Biff Hoffmans were not liable for the $31,237.65 damages claimed by the McCanns, good friends no longer...