Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the debate on the annulment of the 61 Croatian seats, Deputy Bazala, Raditch partisan, delivered himself of a speech in Croatian. Serbian howls rent the Chamber. He declared that Deputies sat in the Chamber who had been elected by the Government and not by the people-but he got no farther. An irate Government Deputy hit him on the head and began a fist fight of prolonged duration which was finally stopped by the intervention of gendarmes...
...Representative of the State Department at London is Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton. Like his predecessors, Secretary of State Kellogg, George Harvey, John W. Davis, Walter Hines Page, Mr. Houghton has no official home provided by the U. S. Like them, he must rent a suite in a hotel, a private house, anything he can get, and hang out a sign: "Embassy of the United States of America." Several years ago, J. P. Morgan public-spiritedly made the U. S. a gift of two adjoining houses in London for use as an Embassy. Before they could be used, it was necessary...
...Italy was quiet. There were attacks by the Communists on Fascisti, by Fascisti on Communists, in which the Socialists were also implicated either as aggressors or defenders. Bombs, bottles and knives were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that a number...
Some church boards have rented offices. We have a Presbyterian book shop on one of the upper floors and a Methodist book shop on the first floor. One thing we don't have in the building is a cigar store. We could have rented a corner for this purpose at $9,000, but we preferred to rent it for a candy store for $3,000 less...
Uniform Months. The section of the Association devoted to economic and political science unanimously adopted a resolution urging that months of Uniform length would be advantageous from the point of view of salaries, rent, statistics, interest and other matters...