Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee reported, Secretary Mellon appeared before it. He told the Committee: 1) That the agreements with Latvia, Esthonia, Czechoslovakia and Roumania conform with only slight variations to the form of the agreement established when the British debt was funded. 2) That some concessions were made to Belgium on her pre-Armistice debt. 3) That in the case of Italy substantial concessions had to be made because her capacity to pay was small; the full principal of the debt is to be paid, but interest will vary during 62 years from ?% to 2%. He called attention to the fact that...
...internationally famed editor of Die Zukunft (The Future) "meets" most of his contemporaries with intent to flay them. It is the opinion of the pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...
...Manhattan, U. S. A., Charles Recht, U. S. attorney for the Soviet Government, announced that he had filed 200 suits against the New York Life Insurance Co. and the Equitable Life Assurance Society in an effort to obtain over $2,000,000 due to Russian holders of pre-revolution policies issued by these concerns...
...pre-Revolution debts of the Tsarist Government to be eventually settled by the present Soviet Government...
Died. Prince Lowenstein, 8, nephew of Count von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S.; at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, when run into by an automobile while bob-sleighing...