The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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... president to raise a loan of £ 4,000,000 sterling for the ultimate withdrawal of the notes . The immediate result was the withdrawal of gold and silver from circulation and a rapid fall in the value of the notes , which at the end of ...
... president to raise a loan of £ 4,000,000 sterling for the ultimate withdrawal of the notes . The immediate result was the withdrawal of gold and silver from circulation and a rapid fall in the value of the notes , which at the end of ...
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... President Perez . The principal task confronting President Santa Maria on assuming the presidency was to negotiate a treaty of peace with Peru and provide for the President evacuation of the Chilian army of occupation . The presence of ...
... President Perez . The principal task confronting President Santa Maria on assuming the presidency was to negotiate a treaty of peace with Peru and provide for the President evacuation of the Chilian army of occupation . The presence of ...
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... President and Congress . Balmaceda then nominated a ministry not in accord with the views of Congress , and , to prevent any expression of opinion upon his conduct in the matter , refrained from summoning an extraordinary session of the ...
... President and Congress . Balmaceda then nominated a ministry not in accord with the views of Congress , and , to prevent any expression of opinion upon his conduct in the matter , refrained from summoning an extraordinary session of the ...
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... President remained concealed in this retreat until | ment . 18th September . On the evening of that date , when the term for which he had been elected President of the republic terminated , he committed suicide by shooting himself . The ...
... President remained concealed in this retreat until | ment . 18th September . On the evening of that date , when the term for which he had been elected President of the republic terminated , he committed suicide by shooting himself . The ...
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... President was advised that the only way of averting the financial ruin of the banking institutions of the republic was to suspend the conversion law and lend from the national treasury inconvertible notes to the banks . Señor Errazuriz ...
... President was advised that the only way of averting the financial ruin of the banking institutions of the republic was to suspend the conversion law and lend from the national treasury inconvertible notes to the banks . Señor Errazuriz ...
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