Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with the International Sugar Agreement of 1930, President Grau last week set Cuba's sugar production quota for 1934 and allotted the picayune total of 1,500,000 tons for export to the U. S. There is no way of negotiating for an increase in that allotment until President Roosevelt recognizes the Grau Government. Thus the present allotment effectually sentences Cuba to economic bankruptcy. Everything depended last week on what President Roosevelt's new personal representative, Jefferson Caffery, would...
...hoped for direct cash profits were no happier than the little group of men to whom silver is almost a religion, those who have fought to raise its price, to see the day when silver once more became money. To Senator Pittman of Nevada, who wangled through the London agreement, it was a delightful Christmas present. In the first flush of joy he predicted that it would: 1) stabilize the world price of silver at 64 1/2 ? 2) increase buying power in the U. S. 50%; 3) increase the exchange value of the moneys of China, India, Mexico...
...President had gone far beyond the terms of the London agreement for he had undertaken to buy not 24,000,000 ounces a year but all that U. S. producers might mine. At present U. S. production is estimated at about 24,000,000 ounces but it was 31,000,000 ounces in 1931, 50,000,000 ounces in 1930 and 60,000,000 ounces in 1929. Inasmuch as the price of silver was less than 60? an ounce in 1929, the U. S. Mint will probably be offered a lot more than 24,000,000 ounces...
...plotting their common course through the last six months of 1933, future historians will mark well these dates: July 9-The cotton textile code is signed, providing a 40-hr. week, $12 minimum weekly wages, abolishing child labor -the first and still the most satisfactory trade agreement. It was arrived at, said General Johnson, "in a goldfish bowl." July 27-With heavy industry lagging behind in the codification march, the President sends 5,000.000 "re-employment agreements" to 5,000,000 employers of whom 3,000,000 sign. The Blue Eagle is born. "A truce on selfishness, a test...
...fifth division, compliance, he personally takes in charge. Nov. 17-Steel, pointing to a 32.1% increase in wages, a 28.3% increase in payroll, announces it is "satisfied" with its tentative code, renews it for six months. Dec. 11-Some 150 dry cleaners are haled to Washington for price agreement violations. To the Federal Trade Commission were handed 100 of their cases, NRA's greatest "crackdown." Dec. 13 - Ninety code administrators appointed in one day. Net Reviewing NRA's first six months, during which General Johnson mustered 1,500,000 volunteer workers and speakers, issued 100,000,000 "pieces...