Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The treaty, which now goes for ratification to the Chamber of Panama and to the Congress of the U. S., strongly supplements the still valid Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty of 1903, and replaces the Taft Agreement abrogated...
...taken to build five of these. President Coolidge in his budget message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 13) did not recommend appropriations for the remaining three cruisers; instead, he suggested that their construction be postponed as a means of bringing the naval powers of the world to a new disarmament agreement...
...armaments the U. S. Navy had fallen below Great Britain and Japan. It now approaches the level of France and Italy. According to the 5-5-3 agreement, it should be the equal of Great Britain. Its chief defect is a scarcity of modern light cruisers and of submarines in commission...
...workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than 7,000 strikers immediately rushed to register for work...
Already the Firestones have been working their plantation for over a year under a tentative agreement (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) with the Liberian Government. Young Harvey Firestone Jr. (Princeton '20) has largely engineered the groundwork of this vast project. Recently he surveyed the Philippines for further rubber possibilities, told President Coolidge at White Pine Camp (TIME, Aug. 16) that "in 15 years the United States could become independent of the British Rubber monopoly" if Philippine land laws are modified to encourage U. S. investments there...