Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...item in the Home Secretary's estimates moved ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to intense indignation. The item was a matter of about $5,500,000 for a special grant to the Government of Northern Ireland to help defray the expenses of the special constabulary. Mr. Snowden declared that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods...
...question was referred to a special committee of investigation, and the Reichstag adjourned until...
...Berlin, a grand caterwaul was raised. It was alleged, not without reason, that to pay the Rumanian bill would be to create a dangerous precedent ; for other ex-enemy countries might well demand special payments outside the Experts' Plan and saddle Germany with debts that would wreck the Plan, which was designed to collect all that is collectable from...
...Three special events will be included in the program, the manager's relay, the shetputter's and 36-pound weightmen's relay, and the Crimson-Lampoon relay...
...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...