Word: moratorium
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Chancellor Wirth has come before the Reichstag with plain-spoken declarations that have the air of an ultimatum. Germany, he says must have a complete moratorium for the coming year, and a foreign loan as well if she is to being to meet her obligations for 1922. As to the recent action of the Allied Reparations Committee, which has demanded additional taxes of sixty billion marks and Allied control of German finances, he declares arbitrarily that no government will be formed to meet those conditions. The Chancellor's speech was greeted in the Reichstag with cheers...
...hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing of all theatres until the audience is ready to make the spiritual effort to meet the playwright halfway...
...world depends more or less on the success of this experiment. It is not reassuring to discover that conditions in Cuba are such as to warrant talk of intervention for the third time since the island became independent. The financial problem is probably the worst, especially since the moratorium which has existed since last October was extended to February first. Almost as complicated is the election problem. Although the votes were cast in early November nobody knows who is to be the next President. There is much fraud and violence; the courts do not function; blood has been shed...
...worst of the little tempest in Boston's financial teapot is over. With the assumption by the state of the seventh bank in months to close its doors, and the announcement by three more of a moratorium delaying withdrawals of savings deposits for ninety days, the course of unthinking panic seems to have been allayed. The gradual return to sanity will now offer an opportunity for grave reflection...
Indoor practice in lateral bassing will be held daily at Bond's Moratorium. The annual contest with Yale is this year expected to be a fight to the finish, so that all candidates must start in at once to perfect their angling. At the training table Bass Ale will be served frequently to improve the squad's reeling. Hamilton Fish '10 will coach the linemen, while Tad Poles 1908S. will officiate as baiter and Yale scout...