Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Support. Agreement with the conclusions of Dr. Gore and his associates was urged on Episcopalians of the "Catholic" or "high church" type* by Rev. William A. Nichols of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn. Said he: "At the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, thought by some to be too 'high,' it has been taught for two decades that the Old Testament consists of myths, 'literature,' history and allegory...
...best method of arriving at agreement as to the relative strength of our navies would be, I think, to delegate the matter to a commission of two, one American and one Englishman. Naval experts should not be permitted to embarrass the deliberations of these two statesmen. . . . I feel that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Hoover or the Earl of Balfour and Mr. Hughes would agree where no conference of admirals or experts could...
...vote, won by 335 to 147, and then launched into a great and moving political declaration. His two paramount objects would be, he said, first to put through revision of the Dawes Plan, and thereafter to secure final ratification by Parliament of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, between France and the U. S. When M. Poincaré had spoken, a cheering Chamber gave his Cabinet a formal vote of confidence...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...
...conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal to Cuban producers to conclude a "Gentleman's Agreement...