Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guerrilla leaders were at last moving to unite their private armies, declare war on both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal...
...which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over the tax bill, passed by the Senate last week with the understanding that many a compromise would be made between...
...good Americans who might want to go to sea. . . . We have made our case clear. . . . The idea now will be to organize our men on ships. They are going back fighting mad and with a job of education to per form among their fellows. When the Pacific Coast wage agreement comes up for renewal in September ... if the ship lines then hold out against our demands, the Atlantic Coast will be pulled with the Pacific in a general strike that will mean something...
...foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett, no bush leaguer, "but not those in the major leagues." Furthermore, to protect its members, the Guild wanted some sort of provisional reciprocal agreement between the U. S. and foreign countries put into effect instanter while Congress ponders a permanent measure...
...Machado fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff agreements with Brazil and the Argentine. The latest expression of Latin approval of American policy came in the unanimity of agreement over the impending Pan-American Congress...