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Balfour pointed out that so far the British had not asked the Allies for either the payment of interest or the repayment of capital on the debts owed by them to Britain. However, "the American Government have required this country to pay the interest accrued since 1919 on the Anglo-American debt, to convert it from an unfunded debt to a funded ...
Balfour's solution was to buy them out, not by compulsion, but by offering the owners a full immediate payment and a 12% bonus on the sales price. The British government purchased 13 million acres (53,000 km2) by 1920, and sold farms to the tenants at low payments spread over seven decades.
Portrait of Arthur Balfour is a 1908 portrait painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent of the British politician and former prime minister Arthur Balfour. [ 1 ] Balfour has succeeded his uncle Lord Salisbury as premier, his close connection to him earlier reportedly giving rise to the phrase " Bob's your uncle ". [ 2 ]
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The U.S. Justice Department said it resolved probes into Balfour Beatty Communities, one of the U.S. military's largest private landlords, after it pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of ...
The Liberator Building Society was a British building society that was formed in 1868 by Jabez Balfour and failed in 1892 due to fraud perpetrated by its founder. Balfour used his widespread non-conformist and temperance connections to raise funds, it became the largest building society in the country by the 1890s. However, by the end, most of ...
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The FTC required Balfour to issue contracts going forward under new ground rules. [8] In the 1970s, Balfour began producing a much wider variety of products for sports champions. When L.G. Balfour died in 1973, the ownership of the company was placed in a trust administered by the Bank of New England. In the late 1970s, Balfour acquired the ...