Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remained to listen. The Senators had decided among themselves to give Boss Vare another hearing when he gets well?which he doubtless will do soon after Missouri's Reed's term expires on March...
...Morgan sat on the Second Dawes Committee, he was undoubtedly pondering a fiscal operation beside which the half-billion-dollar loan to France and England would seem picayune. This project is spoken of as "Commercializing" the German reparations debt. By this is meant (TIME, Oct. 29) that long term "reparations bonds" may be issued against the resources of the German State, sold to the public, and the money used to pay off at once Germany's debt to the Powers...
...supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...
Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...
This "Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law", duly convened by the Council, after three meetings and considerable study during a period of about two years, reported to the Council that seven subjects were "ripe for codification", within the meaning of that term in the Assembly resolution of September 24, 1924. The Council transmitted this report to the Assembly of the League of Nations which on September 27, 1927 resolved to submit the following questions for examination by a Conference on Codification of International...