Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When soft coal labor negotiations reached a crucial deadlock the President called operators and miners to the White House. As a prelude to ordering them to reach agreement (see p. 20), he reminded them that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later...
This was the situation when Franklin Roosevelt at last intervened. To Spokesman Charles O'Neill for the operators, John Lewis for the miners, the President issued a polite ultimatum: they were plainly in agreement on the principle of union hiring; let them within 36 hours settle the technicalities, start digging coal. Back in Manhattan the two sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations...
Last week this friendship developed into an alliance. In the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that Turkey and Britain had agreed to conclude a "definite long-term agreement of reciprocal character in the interest of their national security. In the event of aggression leading to war in the Mediterranean area," added Mr. Chamberlain, "they [Turkey and Britain] would be prepared to cooperate effectively and lend each other all aid and assistance in their power...
...Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia, a few German bombs falling...
When President German Busch carved Bolivia into a totalitarian state three weeks ago, he announced proudly that it was his own doing, that Rome and Berlin had not helped. Last week Bolivia announced a barter agreement with Germany. For German machinery, a 350-mile pipeline across the Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...