Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan comes into effect (TIME, June 10, et seq.), Tageblatt intimated that should Dillon, Read beat their "rivals" to the Stock Exchange with an $100,000,000 German loan, subsequent Morgan pickings from Reparations Bonds might verge upon the loan. According to the "dope" Dr. Schacht was persuaded to obstruct the loan by Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose post as Agent General of Reparations will automatically be abolished when the Young Plan comes into effect. For years Germans have been hearing that Mr. Gilbert will then become a Morgan partner...
...Leningrad, U. S. S. R., nine directors and engineers of the Soviet shipbuilding trust were arrested last week, charged with treason in trying to obstruct the government's shipbuilding program...
Federal Reserve. Last February the Federal Reserve Board harassed the market by convening every Thursday to discuss a raise in the rediscount rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to accommodate commerce and business, it is its duty . . . to take measures to correct them; which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when...
Though Prime Minister Braun is a humanitarian and a Socialist, he has grown tired and angry at the conduct of Communist and Monarchist deputies who constantly obstruct proceedings of the Prussian Diet by their catcalls and hoots (TIME...
Pews would prevent squatting in the traditional attitude of prayer. Pews would obstruct reverent foreheads from bending down to touch the floor of the House of Allah. Pews would be an awful desecration -as awful as though heathen Christians should not don slippers before entering a mosque, and thus pollute the floor...