Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast field which responds badly to the integrated treatment we have suffered under elsewhere. As for the reflex of economic forces upon social events, Professor Usher has emphasized them repeatedly as he passed from topic to topic; and at the beginning of the year expressed his extent of agreement and disagreement with the specific theory of the economic determination of history. We remember with appreciation his humane and genuine interest in all subjects and in his own students...
...that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along with "my humble self." Pudgy Charles O'Neill of Pennsylvania, the operators' spokesman-in-chief, likewise reappointed himself and his committee. "We are willing to undertake again the task of trying to reach an agreement...
...stop A. F. of L., John Lewis asked the operators under contract to him to formalize their present, informal recognition of his supremacy by writing a "union shop" into a new agreement. This would guarantee that for the next two years only Lewis miners could get jobs in most coal mines. The operators refused. Miner Lewis then asked them to waive a clause in the old contract, which in effect forbade his men to strike, thus freeing him to fight A. F. of L. encroachment by making it costly for the employers. The operators refused. He then offered to keep...
...demonstrated that Great Britain's biggest naval building program is well ahead of schedule. It came five days after Chancellor Hitler denounced the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement by shouting to the Reichstag, "The basis for the naval treaty with England has been removed!" It came after long discussions in British newsorgans about the strength of the new ships compared with the Nelson and the Rodney, most modern British battleships. The Prince of Wales and King George V are of an improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor...
...reports that the Nazi-Fascist military pact might soon become a tripower one appeared to some observers to have been strengthened by disclosure today that Hitler and Franco have agreed to negotiate an important trade agreement by which Germany hopes to attain a predominant economic position in reconstructed Spain...