Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Right Honorable Members learned from London news organs that Signor Mussolini had just informed Mr. Kellogg that "The Royal Government of Italy . . . offers very willingly . . . cordial collaboration toward reaching an agreement...
...Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
...When that aspect of the situation was ruthlessly pressed home to the French Cinema Commission by impatient Mr. Hays its members entered into a final down-to-business conference with him which began at 10:30 one morning last week, and concluded amicably with the drafting of a working agreement at 2:00 a. m. the next...
When cornered by newshawks Tsar Hays spread a grin of satisfaction between his far flung ears and succinctly explained the new agreement as follows: "The principal point is that it eliminates the necessity of buying French films to show in America. It provides that with every film produced in France hereafter seven import permits will be issued. We shall be able to get these permits for our films in three ways. If an American company produces films in France permits will be issued to it. Or an American company may buy a French film and permits, but is under...
Conditions as they really are in such cases can never be determined to the agreement of everybody concerned. Largely depending on the newspapers be reads, the American who interests himself at all in such matters can form an opinion only on grounds which are stoutly denied by the other side. Politicians and members of the enlightened upper crust of Filipino society make large claims of their ability to manage their own affairs, while the Administration forces maintain that the bulk of the people are not sufficiently advanced for such a move. Imperialism, no matter how a country begins upon...