Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgium and Holland. The Pope despatched 20,000 florins ($8,000) to aid the flood rescue work in Holland, and despatched a like sum for the same purpose to Belgium...
...Brother W. K. This one foresaw for himself independent wealth, private estates, gentlemanly diversions. They went to court. For almost a quarter-million dollars Brother W. K. bought from Brother Dr. John Harvey the rights to commercialize certain flaked foods already devised. John Harvey Kellogg slapped the sum into the funds of his various educational works, for which he has become world famed...
...post-cards, reprints of etchings by K. J. Conant '15, an instructor in the School of Architecture, have been placed on sale in the square, and may be procured for a nominal sum...
...Lithuania, and Poland have already been approved by the Congress. Since the adjournment, further agreements have been entered into with Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Esthonia, Italy and Roumania. These eleven nations, which have already made settlements, represent $6,419,528,641 of the original principal of the loans. The principal sums, without interest, still pending, are the debt of France, of $3,340,000,000; Greece, $15,000,000; Jugoslavia, $51,000,000; Liberia, $26,000; Russia, $192,000,000, which those at present in control have undertaken openly to repudiate; Nicaragua, $84,000, which is being paid currently, and Austria...
...have cut his visit much too short for successful negotiation with Secretary Mellon, it is widely rumored that Senator Bérenger comes as a sort of "permanent diplomatic conversationalist" to keep the French debt negotiations amicably simmering until they can be definitely pinned down to a fixed sum...