Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is, however, a much stronger point against the validity of the 18th Amendment. That is the seven-year limitation as to ratification. It is clearly contrary to the Constitution. I have never understood why Root and the other lawyers who argued the case in the Supreme Court did not raise this point. . . . But it is too late now for this objection...
Certain aspects of their contract with their men are very interesting. Men must be American citizens, twenty-one years of age or over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors...
Progress. The experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative...
...definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks per year ($356,850,000). Promptly the Allied delegates repeated their demand for $625,000,000; and Messrs. Morgan and Young were understood to be suggesting $500,000,000. Thus after a month of cautious trafficking in generalities, the Second Dawes Committee got down to coldest cash...
...Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...