Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons- ¶ I Upheld the Baldwin Conservative Government 338 to 152 in its watchful waiting policy of dealing with the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) which has reputedly cost the Empire to date a sum equivalent to $1,000,000,000. ¶ Heard Liberal leader Lloyd George flay Premier Baldwin for not yielding to the proposal of a group of Church of England dignitaries (TIME, July 26) that the Government subsidize the coal industry for four months, during which time work would be resumed and peace negotiations continued. ¶ Dozed as Premier Baldwin, seemingly fatigued, "run down," replied...
Continuing in wrathful vein, Lord Beaverbrook took as his text the reputed failure of the London firm of Furness Withy & Co. to purchase the White Star Line for more than ?6,000,000 because the transfer of such a sum to the White Star Line's U. S. owners might have depressed the pound in relation to the dollar. Pointing the moral, Lord Beaverbrook concluded: "The idea of enforcing the return to the gold standard was that we should be able to buy on equal terms in America...
...sum appropriated by Parliament for the expenses of the sovereign and his house-hold...
...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
...heads. Vatican expenses have mounted. This year's income is reported already expended. What the Vatican's total income is has never been revealed since 1870, when the temporalities were confiscated by Italy. Pius IX (died 1878) left $6,000,000 of income-bearing capital. Of this sum his successor Leo XIII (died 1903) lost some $2,000,000 by poor investments, yet recouped himself by administrative economies. Pius XI's income-producing wealth is more than $7,000,000. But most of the annual income is derived from current donations. Most important is "Peter...