Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil List of Their Majesties stipulates for the payment to trustees of ?10,000 ($43,500) a year for each son who attained the age of 21. When Parliament reassembles in January it will be asked to vote this sum to the young Prince...
Cleveland has guaranteed $125,000 to the National Committee for the expenses of the Convention. Public Hall where the Convention will be held, is to be rented to the Committee for the sum...
Furthermore, presupposing the fall of Bolshevism, the Tsarist regime will ask certain foreign Governments, including that of the U. S., to return "the 1,000,000,000 gold rubles ($514,000,000) sent from Russia before the revolution and now deposited in various banks under Government guarantees." With this sum, it was believed that the restoration of the economic and social life of Russia may be accomplished without appealing to foreign nations for a loan...
...Summer of 1921, Prince Yusupov, whose family was once reputed the "richest in Russia," found himself in financial straits. To raise immediate cash, he had already hypothecated these two historic Rembrandts, smuggled out of Soviet Russia in a manner still unexplained, for the admittedly inadequate sum of 45,000 pounds sterling...
Under the proposed plan, tickets would be issued to students for a nominal sum to cover the games played at home including those for which seats are now reserved...