Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no provision in British law for resigning from the House of Commons, but a member loses his seat by elevation to the peerage or taking a post such as one of the virtually imaginary stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds, nominal jobs with token pay and no duties...
...export sales, Franco might be induced to let I. T. & T. keep part of its foreign exchange, show Spanish profits again for U. S. stockholders. For Spain, weak on exportable products such as Behn's plant can give ner, needs foreign credits to buy the goods she lacks. Token of her need, reputedly desperate, arrived in New York last week: first Spanish gold ($1,500,000 worth) to be shipped to the New World in 19 years...
...from existing sources of revenue, to get $353,500,000 by additional taxes (including a wholesalers' sales tax whose rate will be set by the House), and to borrow the remaining $4,662,000,000. Many defense items appeared in the new budget in token form and Sir John frankly guessed when he put the "presumed cost of war" in at the round figure of ?2,000,000,000 ($7,000,000,000). As the London Financial News said afterward, "The war will cost whatever it costs, and that's that...
Between these extremes are friendlier Republics (like Colombia), which recognize the need of settling the bond question in a way that will make new U. S. loans respectable. In the middle too is the State Department, patiently trying to worm token payments out of defaulters to justify new credits and get the trade ball rolling...
...life of the order of St. John the Evangelist is not always one of monotonous spirituality. In 1932, for instance, a devout believer is reported to have sent the fathers two cases of beer, as a token of his gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...