Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...
...continual bother of solicitation by many local charities is avoided by the Council's agreement with these organ- isations that they will accept donations from it and forego personal canvassing. It should be remembered that these donations are made possible by students' contributions...
...this week Professor Riley was back in the news. The Russian press suddenly bristled with charges that Britain sought another Munich agreement. This time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong...
...German protection rather than continue to submit to Serbian rule. When Yugoslavian Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch began negotiations, in the midst of Balkan alarms, Dr. Matchek took time out to say what he thought of the people he was dealing with. Said he: "We Croatians are wholeheartedly for an agreement, but if none is reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs go left, we must go right. If they go right, we left. If war comes-we will then have no alternative but to go on the other side. . . . The clique in Belgrade . . . would...
...laws had failed to bring order into the shed, but interstate control by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ended price-cutting competition from the six outlying States. So last year New York State's dairy farmers held a referendum, voted to subject themselves to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement...