Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder, the worst crime a Guajiro Indian can commit is to call another Indian by his true name in Guajiro language; to get around this difficulty, all Indians have names in Spanish as well as in their own tongue. But any crime, even murder, can be squared by payment of goats, the accepted currency of the Guajiros...
...troubled debate before the final vote sounded the voice of Massachusetts' Richard Wigglesworth. A member of Congress since 1928, Bostonian Wigglesworth established his heavy-set figure at the reading stand, and began with a familiar Republican charge. "This $56 billion appropriation bill," he said bitterly, "represents a down payment on tragic errors in judgment made at the conference tables of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. It amounts to a ransom for an appeasement policy which this Administration has pursued in Asia ... a mortgage on the life of every American for blunders made . . . [Now] we must ask ourselves...
...wanted to ask some questions. Said she later: "I've had a hell of a trying day." Home at last in Spokane, Virginia found that the Government could dish out a few backhand slaps itself. The house was locked; Internal Revenue agents had seized it as part payment of a $161,000 back income tax bill. Where was the rest of the money coming from? Virginia had no idea. Said she, huffing off to spend the night in a tourist cabin, "I never worked in my life...
...days the British must hand over 75% of their oil profits since March 20. Alternative: Iran would break off the talks. The British, who know that Iran needs money, and intend to play that card for all it is worth, replied that they were ready to make a "goodwill payment," but for the moment no more...
Argentine law exempts newsprint from import duties when it is used for "cultural" purposes. Last week the Perón government ruled that newsprint used for advertising is subject to the tariff. From the Ministry of Finance to the chief opposition papers went telegrams demanding payment of back duties. For La Prensa, ordered to come across in 72 hours, the ruling meant that its recent "expropriation" by the government was actually confiscation; the $2,300,000 assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Naci...