Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three main sections of the pact provide: 1) Britain is to transfer to Eire without reservation or compensation the three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will...
...naval agreement was a symbolic victory for "Dev." In securing the removal of the last British sailors and marines on Irish soil he won a concession that Britain refused to yield to Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Irish negotiators in 1921. Downing Street has long been anxious over the prospect of an unfriendly Eire at England's back in time of war. Last week's accord gained for Britain Irish goodwill, assured her of easy access to vital supplies from agricultural Eire in wartime. While the treaty made no commitments regarding Irish defenses, it is expected that Britain...
...independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez...
...during prosperity-$70,969,589 in nine years between 1920 and 1929, $60,261,527 in eight years since 1929. Chicago did better, with $30,650,030 before 1929, $48,604,771 afterward. Yale, which started an endowment drive in 1926, reaped a bumper harvest in Depression's soil. In the 1920s it raised $64,199,898, in the 1930s...
With a new plank stating the Union's refusal to take part in a war on foreign soil, the Vassar peace platform was revised by the H.S.U. in their general meeting last night in Lowell House Common Room...