Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers eight years before. Under the provisional president, Dr. Mendieta, legal elections were set for December, 1935 and to remove all suspicion of American interference in the internal affairs of Cuba, Dr. Mendieta announced he would not run for office...
...powers agreed to limit the capital ships of their fleets. In London in 1930 three of these powers grudgingly agreed to limit their cruisers and smaller vessels (TIME, April 28, 1930, et ante). This week's London Conference is necessitated by the fact that the 1922 and 1930 agreements are about to expire. Few of those attending it have any hope of winning even a grudging agreement. The three U. S. delegates, backed up by 17 technical experts, sailed with two aims: 1) to secure a treaty which will entail no further naval construction: 2) to maintain the present...
...will be no surprises in the Conference, probably because we all understand what each nation wants. ... Of course we don't have to agree at this Conference." Then his official conscience pressed upon him and he added: "But it might serve as a stepping stone to a later agreement." With deadlock already achieved, the U. S. State Department resigned itself months ago to the fact that no new treaty would come from this year's Conference. The British accepted the fact but were not resigned to complete failure. Omitting bigwig statesmen, whose presence would only steer the meeting...
...Chicago, because he was ''fed up on blondes, redheads and brunettes and wanted something different," Frank Polhamius, 28, applied for a license to marry Nadine Snow, 24, whose hair is bluish, and produced an agreement signed by her not to dye her hair for at least two years or until their first child is born...
...were learning by experience what it was like to get along without B. O. M. blurbs. In a drastic step to make news columns safe for news stories Inman Gray's Journal, Clark Howell's Constitution, and William Randolph Hearst's Georgian had just entered an agreement to forbid almost every conceivable method of getting free space. Newshawks grinned as they read instructions which explained in detail just what sort of stories could not be passed by the copy desk. Outlawed were...