Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funding the whole French debt ($4,025,000,000). The French deputies, anxious to avoid ratifying any debt agreement at all as long as possible, ingenuously asked Prime Minister Raymond Poincare to request more time from Washington. Dutifully M. Poincare instructed Ambassador Paul Claudel to interview Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. Dutifully Ambassador Claudel called at the Stimson office, was referred to Secretary of the Treasury Andrev Mellon. Secretary Mellon, himself under orders, was dutifully unimpressed. Mr. Claudel so informed M. Poincare, who so informed the Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with...
...Japanese War Office solemnly declared last fortnight that a "state of war" existed in the empire. A general, instant mobilization of war industries was ordered. General staffs assembled, industrial leaders sat alert at their desks, all factories were ordered to produce "war materials." Martial as the mobilization sounded, it was in reality no more than what occurs annually on Defense Day in the U. S., when for a few minutes railway presidents and corporation heads exchange potent telegrams with the War Department at Washington. But Japan's Defense Day served to remind U. S. citizens in Hawaii, last week...
King Vittorio Emanuele III and New York State went to law last month (TIME, June 17). A piffling $900, and a far-reaching principle, were at stake. The principle which Italy hoped to write down in international law was that the estate of any person who has been a resident but not a citizen of a foreign state, and who dies intestate, shall be administered by his own, rather than his adopted country...
...sailed from Italy 42 years ago. In Manhattan he earned his bread with pick & shovel, lived as an Americano, though legally a subject of the Italian crown. In 1925 Laborer Comincio died, leaving no will, no heir, and $900 in the bank which duly escheated to New York State...
...test case closely. If it were fixed by precedent that foreign countries could lay hands on the unclaimed estates of their citizens domiciled in the U. S., they might expect a neat annual revenue from this source. Italy might get as much as $100,000 yearly in New York State alone, where at least $5,000,000 in claims by other nations were ready for presentation...