Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periodic table of the elements. Three weeks are spent in introducing the basic idea of the quantum theory, as it is evidenced in the photo-electric effect and the spectrum of hydrogen. Each experiment is described and demonstrated prior to the discussion of the theory which explains it. Agreement between theoretical and experimental results is carefully tabulated throughout. The mathematics is limited to algebra; integral signs are banned in order that the nonmathematical student may feel at home. There is a reading period...
...verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia-IF the British embargo is not proclaimed and a new trade agreement is signed...
Litvinov. Responsible for Russia's end of such an agreement is the Soviet's shrewd, roly-poly Foreign Commissar...
...Litvinov again showed his desire to cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic Conference...
Though there is no reason to be over-optimistic about the extent of the tariff reductions which will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield...