Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate effect of the agreement, if it is ratified by the governments concerned, will make for the economic benefit of all of them by disposing of the uncertainty that has featured the question of reparations ever since the war. But students of history may well be cynical of the permanent nature of such an agreement. With the payments stretching over sixty years, there is every chance that before their completion the political relations of the European powers will be vastly different to their condition now. Modern Europe has never passed sixty years without a major conflict, and it is unlikely...
Subject to the settlement of a few remaining points of difference that still separate the German and Allied delegates, the Reparations Conference has finally arrived, after weeks of discussion, at an agreement over the total amount of Germany's war debt. The figures represent a triumph for the German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor...
...list and devote his attention to those which remain. As Douglas Fryer points out in his book, Vocational Self Guidance, the essential need is not for guidance but for stimulation, for thinking on the basis of accurate information. The report has stressed this point and I am in hearty agreement with its recommendation...
Each U. S. citizen going to France this summer will save $8-the price of three good dinners or 33 martini cocktails-through an agreement signed last week by the U. S. State Department and representatives of the French Government. Reciprocally, the price of French and U. S. visas has been reduced from...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...