Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cruiser Bill. By agreement with Senator Borah, in charge of the Kellogg treaty, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, in charge of the Cruiser Bill, opened the session with a Cruiser Bill speech. He argued that the proposed 15 cruisers do not constitute a "big Navy," but represent only the minimum additions required to keep the Navy at a respectable defensive strength. Immediately following this speech, the Senate took up the Kellogg treaty, indefinitely postponing debate on the cruisers...
...other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened to find themselves the uppermost of the three in the person of the king, have had so much trouble convincing the other members to the agreement of their good fortune that it has just been found necessary to declare a dictatorship, and dispense with parliamentary forms entirely...
...first proposal is to construct a concrete stand in the open end, of the same architectural design as the original structure. The Class of 1879 has not definitely stated whether this would be regarded as an alteration but has expressed agreement to the remaining two proposals...
...perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare is how he is ever going to pay the $400,000,000 bill signed for M. Klotz, which falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill is another reason why Frenchmen are unsympathetic toward Signer Klotz...
...united all their interests, except their armament works, in a company to be called the English Steel Corp., Ltd. Capital: about $100,000,000. Then came another merger-the union of Dorman Long, Ltd. with Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd. Capital also about $100,000,000. An export agreement has been concluded and an effort will be made to secure a protective tariff on steel...