Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
...published optimism of the Express paid big. Same day the Munich agreement was signed, auditors began totting up Express sales for the "crisis" month of September, found they had reached an alltime peak of 2,520,205 a day. In calmer October they dropped slightly to 2,507,137. No other newspaper in history has ever averaged above 2,500,000 for even one month. Crowed the Express: ''Peace . . . met the demand...
...agreement with Canada is an improved revision of the reciprocal pact which Secretary Hull and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King signed three years ago; that pact (along with improving world business) has brought a 42% rise in U. S. exports to Canada. Far more important is the brand-new agreement with Great Britain, already the biggest foreign buyer of U. S. products; in the first half of 1938 about one-sixth of all U. S. exports went to the United Kingdom...
Certainly this situation is unsatisfactory; more than that, it is unfair. There is still an implicit contractual agreement between student and teacher; for his course fee the undergraduate is still entitled to demand a certain amount of instruction in sections as distinguished from lectures. Only by limiting the freedom in which the Math A instructors now revel can the Mathematics Department effectively fulfill its duty to the average Math student...
Joseph Stefant, secretary of Local 136, spoke on the concluded terms of the agreement and gave the running history of the strike. Arthur Mason, representative of the workers, thanked the Student Union for their aid in effecting the victory of the cafeteria's employees. He welcomed the event as a stride toward cooperation between town and students...