Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore of Peru, returning last fornight to the U. S., gave full credit for the Tacna-Arica settlement to Herbert Hoover...
...disagreement over control of their journals. A split followed, Buyer Hall asking for an injunction against his one-time partner to restrain him from obtaining operating control. Buyer Lavarre threatened to "disclose" all negotiations with the power company unless the injunction was withdrawn. The injunction still pending, amicable settlement of Hall-Lavarre differences had not been made last week...
Arriving in Washington for the White House ceremony, Mr. Kellogg spoke hopefully of his Treaty, predicted: "I don't think there will be any war. . . . The dispute is ... very susceptible to pacific settlement...
...incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from the U. S. after the Armistice. The only way to escape paying this huge sum now and in cash would be to ratify the general debt settlement, one clause of which virtually grants France a moratorium on what she owes for War stocks. Logically the Government's position was unassailable-either ratify or pay at once "through the nose." But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion. Working...
...jubilant were the members of the Chamber of Deputies at their final disposal of the U. S. debt bugaboo that a short time afterward when the government asked for ratification of the Franco-British debt settlement (TIME, May 10. 1926), it was voted through in a few seconds by a mere show of hands. Comparatively small, as such gargantuan matters go, the British Settlement pledges France to pay ?653,727,900 over 67 years...