Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical kind, the points on which deadlock had been reached were understood by all (TIME, July 18) and so there remained last week only three possible courses to pursue: 1) dissolution of conference; 2) postponement; 3) a yielding by one side or the other to permit agreement...
...Physicians are jealous for their individualistic careers. They resent the development of medical corporations. But as sure as rain they are fostering that development by such a short-sighted procedure as an agreement to exact double fees for night visits...
...also think it would be desirable to discuss the possibility of limiting the number of submarines according to our varying requirements, and it must be borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
Japanese Proposal. Chief Delegate Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito made a very elastic and tentative proposal. His apparent purpose was to keep in the background until Britain and the U. S. showed signs of agreement. His keynote was that the present relative naval strengths of the U. S., Britain and Japan should be established as a permanent status...
...most recent outstanding U. S.-Canadian relationship was the movement to arrange a reciprocal tariff agreement with Canada (1911) by which each country would lower its protective tariff duties on the other's products. Canadian reciprocity was a pet issue of William Howard Taft, the measure was passed in the U. S. Congress by a combination of Democratic and Republican votes and injured President Taft with many members of his own party. The President's victory was then made to appear somewhat futile when the Canadians overthrew the Laurier Liberal government, which supported the reciprocity movement...