Word: transferability
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...that Germany can pay no more than $332,000,000 yearly, the $28,000,000,000 bill works out at an average annual payment of some $500,000,000. The creditor powers further sought to impose as a condition-fiercely opposed by Dr. Schacht-that Germany would waive the "transfer claim" of the Dawes Plan, under which she now enjoys protection of the stabilized value of the mark at 23 cents. Despite the attitude of Dr. Schacht, most U. S. correspondents thought that Chairman Owen D. Young of the Second Dawes Committee would not fail to guide his peers toward...
...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...Transfer, from the Treasury to the Department of Justice, of Federal enforcement. As old as the Volstead Act is the question of which department should enforce prohibition. It went to the Treasury because that department had long collected liquor taxes. Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal...
...institute to absorb all the functions of the present Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, and of the Reparations Commission and the transfer committee...
...before with some frequency; but only five or six were present at these, in contrast with the startling number at this recent event. The proctors, although they were quite willing to give permission, admitted surprise and joined with others in wondering if this is to be precedent for the transfer to Cambridge of the famous Back Bay quantity production tradition...