Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week occurred another momentous polit co-economic event. The U. S. collected 8% on its June 15 War Debt payments. Britain paid as a "token'' $10,000,000 in silver (at 50? per oz.) which the President declared was no default. That France was in default, no one could deny. Like six other debtors, she paid nothing...
...House went home to bed. "The supreme merit of this arrangement," wisely observed the London Times, "is that it is neither default, which was unthinkable, nor payment in full which would have merely left the old dilemma." Specifically Britain, which owed $75,950,000 last week, made a silver token payment worth some $7,200,000 but accepted as $10,000,000. Italy promptly followed with a $1,000,000 silver token for her $13,545,000 owed. Czechoslovakia, normally content to follow France but nowadays striking out as the acknowledged leader of the Little Entente, tokened...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, worthy successor of Leverett,--men who filled the bowls of the ancients with new wine. Presented by the teachers of Arts and Sciences, June 13, 1933, in token of their affection...
...token of thanksgiving, Mrs. Gandhi, who had eaten practically nothing during the Mahatma's fast, planted a mango tree in the garden...
BOOM! POW! CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...