Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted by vote of 41 to 34 an agreement to postpone until Dec. 3 the final vote on unseating Senator Vare of Pennsylvania...
Such was the first inkling that Sir Malcolm might have roughed out in recent months a reciprocal trade agreement between Britain and Argentina which awaited only final negotiation by Viscount d'Abernon and his confirmation in behalf of the Imperial Government. At Buenos Aires the Jockey Club banquet was followed by rapid, intensive, well-hushed work. Paradoxically, the first official announcement of success was made in far off London. To respectful British newsgatherers a frosty official of the Foreign Office cau- tiously revealed that: 1) The agreement signed by Viscount d'Abernon last
...provisional and expected to run for two years"; 2) During this period specified Argentine purchase of £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) worth of British manufactured goods will be balanced by specified British purchases of Argentine foodstuffs and raw materials of an equal value; 3) Details of the agreement were withheld, pending a formal and joint announcement by both Governments, but it was meagerly stated without explanation that the Argentine products to be bought by Britain would be "purchased through the usual channels," and that the British goods to be bought by Argentina would be "chiefly for railways...
When the London announcement was cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
...James ("Uncle Jim") McCoy, 80, of Pikeville, Ky., last of the McCoy clan, famed feudists against the Hatfields in the '705 and '80s; in Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...