Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Abyssinia, last native state in Africa to survive undominated by one or more of the Great Powers, protested to the League Secretariat (TIME, Aug. 9, ABYSSINIA) that Great Britain and Italy have concluded a mutual agreement for exploiting certain Abyssinian territories in defiance of the Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia...
Briefly, Germany accords France "most-favored nation" commercial status under the agreement, and France extends similar trade preference to Germary, though avoiding by disguised phraseology the term "most-favored nation." As initialed, the accord becomes effective Aug. 20, 1926, is renewable every six months, is expected to smooth the way for a formal Franco-German trade treaty of similar scope...
...More Women. The audience could only mutter; "There are no such animals," and take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women...
After the drafting last week of an agreement between Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and British Government officials for better U.S.-British co-operation on prohibition enforcement. (See p. 9.) Mr. Kellogg said: "It is not desirable to publish the text of the agreement for obvious reasons...
What is considered the greatest blow to transatlantic bootlegging since the Dry law went into effect was the U. S.-British agreement signed last week by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and R. G. Van Sittart for Great Britain. Joint co-operation in the British West Indies (with particular reference to the Bahamas) is assured whereby: 1) The U. S. may have an Intelligence Service in the Islands to trace liquor shipments; 2) Joint precautions will be taken against false registration of ships...