Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysler Building is overtopped by the Empire State and the automobile industry is pinioned on the rock of hard times. The prestige of 192g's Man of the Year, Owen D. Young, world financier, friend to Samuel Insull, is still great but even he has produced no sovereign simple for prostrate business...
Urbane Count Charles, a Catholic statesman intimate with his Catholic sovereign, had called in Georges Theunis, Minister of Defense, former Premier and negotiator in 1925 of the U. S.-Belgian debt settlement. He rehearsed the facts. Belgium had expected to receive German Reparations payments totaling $1,632,522,000 by 1988. In this expectation Belgium agreed to pay the U. S. a total of $727,830,000. Thus far Belgium has received $182,200,000, paid $39,800,000. Under the Hoover Moratorium all German Reparations payments ceased and have not been resumed. In these circumstances M. Theunis advised...
Inasmuch as Persia is a sovereign state, Sir Henri Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch (which is associated with Anglo-Persian in distributing oil), rushed around to the Persian Legation in London. He was invited with effusive courtesy to dine. He dined...
When Franklin Delane Roosevelt enters the White House on March fourth next, he will assume his now duties with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...
Some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens this week looked forward to exercising their sovereign power over their Government. Rich & poor, black & white, male & female, busy & idle, wise & foolish, they had all been through three years of the hardest times in their country's history. At least ten million willing workers were the Idle Poor. Five thousand banks had gone under. In man's memory wheat prices had never been lower. Taxes were piled on top of the galling burden of private debt. Savings had been swept away by waves of industrial failure...