Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting at that time...
...Does the Senator from Louisiana realize that the new Members of the Senate have determined, after five and one-half months, that we are no longer going to permit the Senator from Louisiana to run the Senate, and we are not going to consent to any unanimous-consent agreement so far as the Senator from Louisiana is concerned...
...Every miner wants a new agreement. All that a miner has is his pay check. Failure to make a contract will mean that he no longer would have that income...
Businessmen talked fast and long last week about salvaging the good features of their respective codes. Trouble with that idea, as with the codes themselves, was the conspicuous lack of agreement on what were good features. What was good to one group was bad to another-if not within that industry, at least to another industry. The Oil Code, largely honored in the breach even before the Supreme Court cracked it open last winter, irritated the big oil companies and pleased some-but not all-little fellows. Actually the passing of the Oil Code will have little effect...
...rights from Pareto's Italian publisher, dickered until 1926 before they discovered that the Italian publisher did not control translation rights, that the publisher of a French translation controlled only French rights, that Pareto's widow alone could give them the world rights in English. With an agreement for world rights sealed and signed, with Professor Livingston started on the translation, it was discovered that a tentative translation of most of the text had already been completed by .Professor Andrew Bongiorno of Oberlin College, working with Professor James Harvey Rogers, who only thought of translation rights when...