Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Colonel Thompson finally reached an agreement with the Ryan estate. For $529,000 the heirs of Thomas Fortune Ryan agreed to sell their Auto-Ordnance stock, write off $1,090,000 in notes for money advanced to the old company. Other stockholders (including the heirs of Commander Blish) agreed to trade their shares for stock in new Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...
Last year when that peace was broken, Lindbergh again blamed the U. S. press. After the Munich agreement, a radical mimeograph published in London the charge that a semiofficial report made by Lindbergh at a banquet of the Cliveden Set influenced Britain's decision to assent to the CzechoSlovak grab. The story got more attention in the U. S. than in Europe. Liberals denounced...
...second storm blew up in the U. S. press when Lindbergh went to Germany after the Munich agreement and was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Göring with the Order of the German Eagle. Friends tried to explain that the decoration was forced on him and he could not gracefully refuse. But that was not the case. He knew that he was to receive some honor, requested that there be no ceremony. At a dinner party one evening, Marshal Göring, the last guest to arrive, gave Lindbergh the medal in a case, saying simply, "By order...
...swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that he is no great friend of Russia was also counted upon by the British - who have found themselves on the selling side of the deal - to give the Russians the idea that Britain, too, could take a pact or leave...
...mile, 60-yard-wide, sea-level Suez Canal is managed by an Egyptian company (Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez). Its neutrality, even in war, is technically guaranteed by an international agreement. But since Britain's life line is drawn out hair-thin as it threads this needle's eye, 10,000 British troops, 400 British airmen guard it. Since most of the stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because...