Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy promises to swap fruit and olive oil for Austrian timber and machinery, and put this section of the agreement into immediate effect by signing a large order for Austrian lumber last week, ordering $100,000 worth of drilling machinery to help her ceaseless search for petroleum in Italy and Albania...
...mediating power that is his under the Constitution. An open break threatened between Zamora's adherents and the Socialist followers of bag-jowled Premier Manuel Azana. It looked like bargain day to snaggle-toothed President Francisco Macia of Catalonia. He hurried over to Madrid to swap the votes of his 40 deputies for additional home rights for Catalonia, and a loan...
...Treaty. Such support the President carefully withheld. When Dr. Le Breton left the White House it became known that he and President Roosevelt had started negotiations for a trade agreement which the Argentine envoy would return to Washington in July to sign. What commodities would be involved in a swap between the two countries had yet to be developed by experts. Meanwhile the diplomatic sunshine generated by the White House conversations was intermittently dulled by passing clouds following the return last week of James Ramsay MacDonald to London and Edouard Hcrriot to Paris. Mr. MacDonald's carefully guarded report...
...Inez, Ky., John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent...
...farmers] the hope of ultimate free ownership of their own land."* To accomplish this the Federal Land Banks, under Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s Farm Credit Administration, were to issue $2,000,000,000 worth of 4% bonds, the Government guaranteeing the interest. The Land Banks were to swap these bonds for mortgages-a transaction involving little or no cash exchange. In the swapping, the principal of frozen mortgages was to be scaled down. This the mortgage holders-banks, insurance companies-would not mind in view of their improved security. Farmers would pay the Land Banks 4½% on their...