Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Bank of Cleveland, one of the first labor banks in the U. S. Last week it was announced that Engineers' National would be one of three banks to be purchased by Citizens Bank and Trust Co., now being organized. Sale of Engineers' National is in accord with the Brotherhood's recent decision to retire from active banking. On the Pacific Coast, Brotherhood banks in San Francisco and the Northwest have been bought by Calitalo Investment Co., a holding company. With the passing of Engineers' National there will be only two national banks in Cleveland, where...
...hours passed, London, Washington and Tokyo put pressure upon Nanking, until cocky Mr. Wang cracked, retracted. He blandly announced himself in complete accord with the following trick statement, masterfully drafted by the British Foreign Office: "His Majesty's government are willing to agree that Jan. 1, 1930, should be treated as the date from which the process of the gradual abolition of extraterritoriality should be regarded as having commenced in principle...
London's suave lead was followed by Tokyo and Washington, where Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced that "in the matter of extraterritoriality the American and Chinese governments are now in complete accord." Thus the British masterminds which coined such weasel terms as "The Irish Free State" (see p. 27) appeared again triumphant. Abolition of extraterritoriality will be delayed for years, but China's face has been saved...
Though mercilessly destructive in the main, the French note contained a brief constructive suggestion for a Mediterranean naval accord between France, Britain, Italy and Spain?a country not invited to the London parley. Since October, Spain has waited hopefully for an invitation. Spurred by the French note, she last week virtually demanded admission, Dictator Primo de Rivera citing "Spain's duty to intervene . . . because of her geography and history...