Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...
...busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...
...television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when a technician made some adjustments, fumbled, was electrocuted...
Strongly opposing an amendment granting an extension of Federal powers over agriculture and industry, the Crimson voters swung the other way on the next poll and decided that, in agreement with New Deal policies, there should be more centralization of powers in the Federal government...
...beer at the Commons, students usually congregated in a tavern and bakery owned by a Mrs. Vashti Bradish. Complaints to President Dunster accused Mrs. Bradish of harboring students "unreasonably spending their time and parents estate". Not wishing Mrs. Bradish's innocent calling to be discouraged, the president made an agreement that she should not serve students with more than a pennyworth at a time, or more than twice a week on the average...