Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of nibbling will not solve this crisis!" wound up the Prime Minister. "Rapidity of agreement is essential to success. . . . Let us see to it that before we disperse we shall have revived hope, energy and opportunity...
...help insolvent cities. With his support legislation was drafted to bring cities within the scope of the new bankruptcy law for corporations and individuals. By this means a city might offer its creditors 60? on the $1. If three-fourths of them concurred, it could take its debt agreement into Federal court, have it made binding on all creditors, get a chance to make a fresh financial start...
...bitter experience they have learned how unfounded this tariff doctrine is. They have learned how impossible it is to continue selling where they do not buy, and they at last are prepared, through proper agreement, to lower tariff barriers so that international trade may begin to move again...
...Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained...
...since, under the new law, 20 days must elapse between a banker's agreement to take a company's securities and the resale to the public) no banker would make a "firm" deal with a company. The banker would become merely a distributive agent for the corporation's securities- i. e. the banker would not contract to supply a corporation with cash...