Word: safeguard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France will pay in the current financial year about $20,000,000, with gradually increasing payments until the 60th year, when the full previously arranged $62,500,000 will be reached. M. Caillaux's cold financial heart pulsated with gratitude at Chancellor Churchill's concession of a "safeguard clause" (protection of French interests in the event Germany should default in her reparations payments...
That France should make payments beginning at $30,000,000 each for the first two years and advancing gradually to $125,000,000 in the 17th year, and continuing at that level to the end of the usual 62-year period for paying War debts. No "safeguard"; clause (exempting France from payments in case Germany fails in reparations payments), such as was demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years...
...This has been done under reservations which adequately safeguard American rights and also tend to strengthen the independence of the Court...
...sport's sake, there would be no need either of amateur rules or even of amateurism, but for the same reason that laws and a police force will always be necessary to protect the social and civic rights of men, so civic rules and administrative bodies be necessary to safeguard the ideals of amateurism and to protect the participants thereunder
...regents' reason was fear of domination by the donor, and their resolution included all incorporated foundations. Said President Keppel: "It is hard to conceive that a fair-minded man or woman should fail to realize that the broadly co-operative character of these operations offers the most effective safeguard, if safeguard were needed, against any employment of these trust funds based upon unworthy motives...