Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern to us who inhabit the secluded sports of Cambridge is the fact that all possible objection of scheduling a game with the Joliet Zobras has now been removed. The millennium has arrived and the code of fair competition has now been instituted; when will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western initiative and drive...
Besides organizing SA & CA, the Minister of Corporations last week had time to reach an agreement with textile mill owners to have at least 30% of their employes men, as a move to reduce unemployment, and to borrow a leaf from NRA by announcing a 40-hour week for Italian Industry...
Last week it was revealed that one angle of the story had been forbidden fruit in news rooms. By an agreement almost unique in U. S. journalism, editors had promised the Department of Justice not to print reports of ransom money turning up. For more than two years city editors dutifully filed away such tips as their legmen brought them...
Grateful for such moral support from NRA, President Sloan promptly thanked the General for thus "definitely spiking propaganda [that NRA and the Government are behind the strike] effectively used in many mill centers." Strike Generalissimo Gorman quietly pointed out that the agreement at issue had begun with the following words: "This agreement does not prejudice the right to strike...
Behind this strange market-day climax lay a typical Irish quarrel. Following the treaty setting up the Irish Free State, an agreement was made whereby owners of great Irish estates were to be reimbursed for their land by the British Government, which in turn was to receive annuities collected by the Irish Government. The Government of Eamon de Valera refused two-and-a-half years ago to send this money to Britain, but kept collecting half of it to pay government expenses. Free State farmers, however, far from grateful for having their payments halved, refused to see why they should...