Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member, so I determined not to join again. Thinking that I would be automatically dropped unless I signed up again as in the two previous years, I merely ignored the Union. But the Union did not ignore me. It seems that when I first joined I made an agreement that I would notify the Union of my intention to withdraw before October tenth of the year of my resignation as a member. Hence, when I received a membership card in the mail on October eleventh I was liable for the dues for the current year-some ten dollars-which...
...seems to me that the ruling which requires the signing of this agreement is basically poor. Undoubtedly my experience is not unusual, as freshmen, we sign so many agreements that we are more than likely to forget details of this sort before another year has come around. When we sign up for the "Crimson," we are not liable for four year's subscriptions. Why are not the two cases parallel...
...week strike was over. Although accepting the 5% wage cut, the mill workers obtained an agreement that any further reduction would be preceded by 30-day notice. Estimates of strike cost to workers & mills were as high...
...major resolution passed by the Congress was a thoroughgoing 2,000-word affair savagely flaying the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin for concluding their "secret" naval agreement with France (TIME...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...