Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illegal for two oilmen in one State to agree with two oilmen in another State to limit their joint production of crude petroleum. Their agreement, the U. S. holds, is a conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...perfectly legal for the first two men to make an oil-production agreement within their State, and the other two men to make a similar agreement within their State, and then for the two States to join those agreements together into an interstate compact or treaty...
Some such plan for the limitation of oil production in western States was expected to be worked out at the meeting of Governors, U. S. officials and leaders of the oil industry called for June 10 at Colorado Springs by President Hoover. The object is to contrive an agreement which will be in restraint of overproduction but not in restraint of trade...
...youth astray by returning their athletes' salaries to them, and in the past there has been no way of escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums...
Last week Publisher Block began a new chapter in his journalistic adventures. But this time he did not buy a newspaper. Instead, he acquired the sole right to sell all the national advertising space for William Randolph Hearst's New York American. The agreement came thus: To Publisher Hearst, as is generally known, the American is more of a political pride than a profitable joy. Sometimes it makes money; more times it does not. Not long ago, with this fact in mind, Publisher Hearst cast his eye about, saw Pub lisher Block making money as a com petitor...