Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret in the family. His brother Jesse staked two claims adjoining Jumbo on the north. George's two sons, Kenneth, 24, University of Nevada graduate, and Wilfred, 20, University of Nevada sophomore, staked claims on the remaining sides of Jumbo. The four thereupon signed a 50-year agreement not to sell their claims...
...Giannini made his first foray into the State of Washington by purchasing some 51% of the stock of the $18,000,000 National Bank of Tacoma. Sellers were National's Chairman Samuel Morley Jackson and the estate of the late Chester Thorne. By amicable agreement, the great lumber family of Weyerhaeuser retains two directors' chairs on the board and local officers will stay in office. Presumably the Tacoma bank will become the centre of Trans america's incipient Washington network...
Under the agreement the stock was to come from the company's treasury. But did Scientist Kettering know, asked Inquisitor Schenker, that only 30,000 was thus withdrawn, that Messrs, Simonds & Thomas went into the open market to buy the other 10,000, thereby running up the price and improving their waterlogged position; that the stock for which he paid $6.50 per share was sold to them by the company for only $5.95. Inventor Kettering sputtered a shocked: "No!" There were some other things which Mr. Kettering evidently did not know about a venture into which he had sunk...
...Reed had an audience of less than 50 when he delivered his speech behind closed doors. Before its end he broke down and wept. Joe Ely could not win the Southerners present to support Landon. He had to be content with an enthusiastic agreement to oppose Roosevelt. Ablest work at the meeting was done by Bainbridge Colby, who wrote its resolution declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had turned his back on his 1932 platform, that his administration had tried in every way to strike down "the beneficent structures of Democratic Government." Said the Colby pronunciamento...
France, now thoroughly alarmed, pulled every possible wire to keep Spain's fire from spreading. The Quai d'Orsay hastily drew up a strict agreement of neutrality, sent it to Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, The Netherlands. Italy, Russia and Germany hedged elaborately. But with anxious Britain backing France, the neutrality agreement was perfunctorily accepted "in principle" by almost every European State...