Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives of the A. F. of L. chosen as bargaining agents by the cooks, bus boys, and waitresses, sat down yesterday around the conference table with Mr. Durant and Mr. Westcott to arrive at some sort of an agreement concerning their mutual problems. Many students will agree that this represents a progressive and far-sighted policy, well in keeping with Harvard's liberal tradition. The meeting yesterday embodied the democratic method of ironing out conflicting interests by rational deliberation...
Just before leaving London for Brussels, willowy, young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the United Kingdom will "go as far as the United States, in full agreement with them-not rushing ahead and not being left behind ... in this dangerous and difficult Far East situation...
Brushing aside an international agreement and overruling a decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rendered year ago, President Lazaro Cardenas last week nationalized by decree 2,000,000 acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary...
More significant than the quarrel was the method of settlement. Donald Douglas concocted an indigenous plan which he thought would cure a number of labor ills. He offered to rehire the entire Northrop force (1,400) including workers whose layoff precipitated the strike, provided each man would sign an agreement on "conditions of employment." The conditions...
Month ago at the Sinnissippi farm of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston...