Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most convincing argument brought forth by the Admiral to refute isolationists who believe that the Big Navy bill is somehow connected with a secret Anglo-U. S. naval agreement was that the reason the Navy wanted such a big fleet was to make it independent of the need for just such alliances, give it the strength to protect both coasts alone. Thereupon, the committee called in the Big Navy bill's opponents...
Wink & Nod. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, the Great Isolationist, had been doing practically nothing for a fortnight but probing for such a commitment. He was specifically interested in a possible agreement between the U. S. and Britain already bound by the 1936 Naval Treaty and two of the "democracies" which Franklin Roosevelt has intimated may eventually have to take the totalitarian powers over their knees. In response to direct questioning, Admiral Leahy had denied point-blank the existence of such an agreement. So had Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull...
...contract were retained-seniority, paid vacations, a basic $5 a day, a 4O-hour week with time-and-a-half for overtime. But instead of running for a full year, the new contract may be reopened on ten days' notice by either side, and if no agreement is reached within the next 20 days, the contract lapses. In effect, this means that U. S. Steel may, at any time, ask the union to accept a wage cut, and if the union does not accept, proceed to put the wage cut into effect. Under the straight one-year agreement wages...
Late last week, exactly five days after Secretary of State Cordell Hull had categorically denied that there was any written or implied agreement of any sort between the British and U. S. fleets (TIME, Feb. 14), three modern U. S. cruisers, Trenton, Milwaukee and Memphis, steamed into narrow Singapore Strait and dropped anchor to the boom of welcoming salutes from British shore batteries...
Under the previsions of his bill, Foley explained that taxable property assessments would jump $20,000,000. On the same point University officials took pains to stress that under terms of a voluntary agreement concluded with the city in 1928. Harvard's share was $7,400 a year on land worth...