Word: provisos
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Most important of all is this final, negative proviso: "It follows that, in adopting this report, the members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...
...Senate was unimpressed. After voting down six amendments to the Moratorium resolution, it overwhelmingly (69-to-12) approved the measure exactly as the House had passed it. including the proviso that Congress was against further reduction or cancellation of War Debts...
...must to all men, came to Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, head of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929). Last week his heirs heard the terms of a 35-page will. To only son John Thompson Dorrance Jr., 11, will go his father's library (with the proviso it be kept intact until he is 50), his father's grandfather clock, and one-fourth of the estate. Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance receives a similar portion. Four daughters (Ethel Mallinckrodt, Charlotte Kelcey, Margaret Winifred and Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill), each receive one- eighth...
...Main proviso: The employer of an habitual drunkard shall pay half his wages to his wife or family...
...were instrumental in organizing many of the horticultural collections at the Harvard Botanic Garden, it has been thought wise to transfer to the Lexington garden those collections which will no longer be appropriately grown at the Harvard Garden. Any plants which have been given to Harvard with a special proviso attached will be transferred with the same understanding...