Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important terms of the agreement are the arrangements for a vast extension of credits by the United States to Brazil, and the latter's agreement to free its foreign exchange for commercial transactions. Here is a country with a large German population, loaded down with Nazi propaganda, which decided that the best hope for economic improvement lay in the establishment of a free exchange market. It means that Germany which has had a steadily growing Brazilian trade through her barter arrangements and use of restricted foreign exchange, will find Brazilian market's open to other countries, especially...
...important consequences may follow from this agreement. Close economic ties with Brazil may result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom...
...President Lowell and the late Mayor Edward Quinn signed a complicated agreement governing Harvard-Cambridge tax relations for 20 years...
Moreover, the University agreed that for property held on July 1, 1928, but which might thereafter be built on for "educational purposes," it would not claim its legal right of tax-exemption at a rate greater than 10 per cent a year. Under this agreement, which is the one Toomey wants amended, Harvard has paid about...
...back down now," declared Joseph Stefani, leader of Locals 186 and 112 who are demanding higher wages and a closed shop agreement. "I think they're going to give us something or other...