Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian lire (about $2,500,000) to be handed over within five days of the presentation of the Italian note. 7) Military honors to the bodies of the Italian officers when they are embarked on Italian warships to be taken to Italy. In conformity with Article 3 a portion of the Italian fleet was sent to Piraeus...
...there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins...
...union in collecting dues is shown by the frequency of so-called "button" strikes. There were 68 petty strikes in the anthracite region in six months between September, 1922, and March, 1923. Sixty-four of these strikes were settled in from one to three days and the greater portion of these were button strikes. Once a month when dues are payable the union gives out new buttons to those who pay. If a man goes to work without a button he is asked to pay his dues. If he refuses and the company continues to employ him, the union strikes...
...negotiating with the Government, and left abruptly. On Mr. Hearst's visit to Mexico, he appealed to the American authorities to prevent new taxes on his 1,000,000-acre ranch, extending through the three states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas. Taxation was levied on the Vera Cruz portion alone...
...Soviet Government is in for good. Moscow is now much like any other town. You can go to the restaurant, eat good food at reasonable prices, see a good cabaret show and drive home in a taxicab. There are 99-year leases of property; you can will a portion of your estate to your heirs on dying; there are first, second and third classes on railroads, and you have to pay fares on street cars. You can also lease your house or flat ? all of which is not exactly Communism. And the streets are clean and well policed...