Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finish two matters which were not of the Administration's making nor very much to the Administration's liking. They were matters which the Administration had not had in mind when, last month, it postponed the adjournment to wait for France to ratify the latest debt agreement. The delay appeared to constitute the Administration's first serious political error, for it also made possible the dragging to Washington of the embarrassing Pennsylvania primary investigations...
Debt Funding Agreements. The bitterest struggle in House and Senate was over the Italian agreement which provided for only about 25% repayment (of the present value). But the argument that Italy could pay no more carried the day. The Senate finally gave its consent (TIME, May 3) and agreements with Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Esthonia and Latvia followed in quick succession (TIME...
...Churchill's outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
...cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas Loughran, mick. Loughran won the decision. But the Philadelphia clients who saw the Frenchman helped to his corner glanced at each other in solemn agreement on an important fact: Carpentier is still a game boxer...
Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...