Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treaty of Versailles. Their importance may be considerable. On both sides are men who avowedly sponsor a great steel trust. In France's Lorraine are found Europe's greatest iron deposits; in Germany's Ruhr Valley are the greatest deposits of coal. An agreement to abolish the duties upon iron ore entering Germany and upon coal entering France would have but one effect: France and Germany would be able to undersell their foreign steel competitors...
...election promises was to abolish the unpopular 20% tax in- crease imposed by Premier Poincare (TiME, Jan. 28). This he how found himself unable to do. His difficulties...
Robert M. LaFolLette radiocast his speech from the Capital. He promised to purge the Government of special interests, to abolish the power of big business to fix prices, control natural resources and credit, and fill the Government with their representatives. This he believed could be accomplished in large part without special legislation...
William Z. Foster, Presidential candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party, asserted at Omaha: "Ramsay MacDonald is only carrying on capitalism. . . . LaFollette can only curtail the moneyed class rather than abolish it. Capitalism will remain in complete power until Labor assumes control...
Premier Neergaard, presiding over a Cabinet Council, listened patiently to Minister of Defence Brorson, who was explaining a bill to abolish the Army and Navy and replace them by a general Police Force and a larger Air Force...