Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wage-agreement upon which the district leaders, especially those from Illinois, who called the Policy Committee's meeting, wanted local autonomy, was the bitterly disputed scale established four years ago at Jacksonville, Fla.-$7.50 per day or $1.08 per ton (for tonnage workers...
...they could detect a change of policy. Perhaps Smith, eager to win, could now tolerate Hearst, at a distance and through an emissary, in return for an "even break" in the Hearst press. Perhaps Smith's friends, without consulting him, were trying to patch up a working agreement, putting it on a party instead of a personal basis. Or perhaps Publisher Hearst, lonely in his demesne, merely wanted to be amused and informed by the knowing japes of Manhattan's official comedian...
Coal. Isaac T. Mann, president of the Pocahontas Fuel Co., reported that agreement was being reached among some 80 soft coal operators in Virginia and West Virginia for the consummation of a $200,000,000 merger...
...Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy of the Chronicle...
After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...