Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a month's cooperative study of the plan, the newspapers of the colleges concerned, came to the unanimous agreement that this bold step was necessary if amateurism in college football was to be preserved...
...real are the chances of Edward's marriage to Mrs. Simpson that Prime Minister Baldwin just made an agreement with the head of the Labor Party not to force an election on the issue of Parliamentary approval. Repeated warnings from the cabinet have failed to awe the King, and the London Times speaks guardedly of the creation of a Council of State, the machine which carries on a monarch's duties when for some reason he is unable to fulfill them. Edward is like a bull in a china shop, breaking traditions every time he moves, and it is clear...
...Rowland, Oilman Getty's representative, read a letter to the chairman setting forth that the Getty interests, "having the largest single investment" in Tide Water, approved of the management's efforts to effect operating economies and tax savings, but opposed the form of the merger agreement. Disapproval was voiced of 1) the directors' rights to determine conversion privileges and price of 873,000 shares of unissued preferred stock, and 2) "deprivation of rights which should belong to the stockholder," namely, the ability to vote annually on directors. Unperturbed, President Humphrey queried: "Does that mean you are voting...
...effort is directed, indeed, towards a limited measure of international security, but nobody expects it to provide a patent remedy for world differences. Rather it is an opportunity for horse-trading, for the exchange of one practical concession for another. And if the seeds planted concern a multi-lateral agreement and trade pacts, Buenos Aires will not be found a Sahara...
Three days later Father Coughlin, admitting his Union to be "thoroughly discredited," announced by radio that he was keeping his promise, quitting the air. Many a citizen found himself in hearty agreement with the political priest for the first time as he throbbed: "It is better, both for you and for me, for the country I serve and the church that I love, for me to be forgotten for the moment...