Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Secretary of State Kellogg, the President conferred about a note to France and England touching on their new, secret naval agreement. ¶. William J. Donovan, assistant to Attorney General Sargent, went respectfully to the President to announce that he had persuaded Dutch, British and other monopolists of quinine not to restrain their U. S. trade (see p. 39). ¶ Rob Roy, seven, President Coolidge's white collie, and personal pet, died in Walter Reed hospital. Prudence Prim, Rob Roy's companion, died last summer in the Black Hills...
...suggestion, last week, by declaring that he is tired of having every session of his Disarmament Commission break up in fruitless disagreements. "Therefore," said he, "I refuse to reconvene the Commission . . . unless ordered to do so by the Assembly, or unless there seems to be some real prospect of agreement...
Said "Jix" to gaping Ayrshire yokels, while London listened: "All the stories you have heard or read about dissension in the Cabinet are absolutely without foundation. Mr. Churchill is, like myself, entirely in agreement with the policy the Prime Minister has laid down . . . , and on that policy the Conservative Party can unite [for the 1929 election...
...course, Elsie Hilary, instead of allowing all the lords and ladies to arouse her ennui or resentment, aroused in them a great liking for her. She stirred the Duke of Warrington to a feeling more ardent than approval; and since she loved the Duke, she ended the agreement with her first lord. But the Duke of Warrington had an old flame whose husband died at just this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped...
...Welsh tin plate manufacturers conferred, last week, on problems of growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...