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...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...
...diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash settlement at any time after eleven installments have been paid, this settlement to consist of a refund with the generous interest of 37-3%. This repayment-with-interest appears to have overshadowed the jewelry portion of the business. Hundreds of dollar-a-week investors have had their partial payments refunded at interest...
...world is full of people who say 'It can't be done.' It was said that Germany could not pay, but money has come out of Germany during the last four years in punctual settlement of the annuities which were fixed in the Dawes Plan, and that's all there...
...Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...substantially repeated in the preamble of the Arbitration Pact wherein the signatories "condemn war as an instrument of national policy." But whereas the Kellogg-Briand Pact stops there, the Arbitration Pact of last week goes on to say that the signatories "adopt obligatory arbitration as the means for the settlement of their international differences. ..." This later pledge is the absolute heart and core of what was accomplished, last week, and is carefully elaborated in the treaty's nine articles, binding the nations firmly to arbitration...