Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homecoming colleagues, Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus had already landed in the U. S. And last week ahead of all of them in the study of President Roosevelt was Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who poured good news from Havana into the Presidential ear: Since the negotiation of the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba (TIME, Sept. 3), business there had picked up, Cubans were pulling out of the Depression...
...President entertained a colleague from overseas, Prime Minister and Mrs. Joseph Aloysius Lyons of Australia, fresh from visiting King George in England and the Pope in Rome. Mr. Lyons' object: a friendly visit and discussion of a U. S.-Australian reciprocal trade agreement...
...Ways & Means Committeemen and several tax experts to face with him the fact that sky-high rates on a few very rich men and a few very large estates would produce only a ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled out by the President for special mention last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more...
...season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain a fall would be the winner. After one hour, 15 min. and 16 sec. of groveling, grunting, groaning and grimacing, Londos applied the "flying mare...
...From the code authority coppermen were able to get better figures on demand & supply than they ever had before. Despite early confusion between Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle and export copper, the code worked so successfully that prostrated foreign producers rushed to Manhattan last winter to pattern a world agreement after it (TIME, April...