Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their way there to discuss with President Hoover, Statesman Stimson and William Richards Castle, the President's new ambassador to their country (see col. 3) Japan's devices, desires and designs at the coming conference. President Hoover honored them with a White House dinner, hoped to reach a preliminary agreement with them on the naval problems ahead...
...naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...
Last week Herr Bosch practically reversed the court's settlement, not by any legal action but by an agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will...
After all, what is most desirable in the House is that a proper balance of power be maintained between the two different factions. Nothing is more deadening than constant agreement, and opposition only ensures a thorough consideration of all proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...
...industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...