Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used his own money and wanted the pictures for his own enjoyment alone. "Assassin," - "degenerate," "buffoon," "joke," were some of the terms applied to the Prince by Mr. Widener. "Any man who paints his face and blackens...
About the same time, a small group of men assembled in the Governor's rooms of the Bank of England and signed an important contract. Chief among the men present were the Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; J. P. Morgan, representing U. S. underwriters; Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and Dr. Hans Luther, German Minister of Finance, representing their Fatherland...
...contract was for the 800,000,000 gold marks ($200,000,000) loan to be advanced to Germany by the world under provisions of the Experts' Plan (TIME, Apr. 21). The U. S. will take $110,000,000; Great Britain ?12,000,000 ($54,000,000; the remaining quarter will be divided among France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy...
...essential cooperation of Continental markets has been assured; and confidence is expressed as to the success of the issue. The contract under which the loan of 800,000,000 gold marks is to be issued for the German Government, as provided under the Plan, was signed this afternoon. . . . The contract for the issue becomes effective upon receipt of official notification from the Reparations Commission that it has completed its action subordinating present reparations claims against Germany to the lien of this loan and that it has taken the necessary action for putting the Dawes Plan completely into effect...
...Massachusetts, a policeman of a city is a public officer holding his office as a trust from the State, and not as a matter of contract between himself and the city. Police appointments are referred to cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government...