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...industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...
...each mention of the House of Commons. Lord Byng, surrounded by equerries, Cabinet Ministers, officers, stands up to read the speech, previously written for him by the Prime Minister. The most important points made last week: 1) That an attempt would be made to obtain Parliamentary sanction for the calling of a Conference between Provincial and Federal governments to amend the British North America Act "with respect to the execution and powers of the Senate and other important particulars." 2) That the desirability of equalizing the railway freight rates will be inquired into. 3) That important ports...
...Socialists bombarded the Government in a vigorous attempt to force it to explain why some hundreds of millions of gold marks had been payed to the Ruhr industrialists during the time of passive resistance to the French occupation, and why this money was paid over to them without the sanction of the Reichstag...
...Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...
This favorable sanction under which business enters the year 1925 has been accompanied by an old-fashioned bull swing in the stock market, of great persistence and power. People not only are told that they are likely to make money during the next twelve months-they are already doing it in stocks...