Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual customers of all these countries were Germany and Britain, no parties to the original Oslo Convention. When the grand World Economic Conference fizzled out in 1933, the Oslo Convention as an actual agreement was virtually forgotten. But because all the Oslo countries save Belgium...
...article then became fully explanatory: "[Opposition to Nazi anti-Semitism] is irreconcilable with the friendship that binds us to Germany." It looked as though Mussolini and Hitler, having promised to pool their common problems (TIME, May 17), had come to a gentleman's agreement whereby Mussolini would now give open support to Hitler's Jew-baiting...
...agreement with the Non-intervention Committee, the portion of the Spanish coast that includes the Balearic Islands was to be patrolled by the French navy. By the same agreement all warships on patrol were to remain at least ten miles offshore, though there was no stipulation to prevent patrol ships of any country from entering any Spanish harbor when off duty. At anchor last week in Iviza harbor lay the pride of the German Navy, the 10,000-ton "pocket battleship" Deutschland...
With every Nazi newspaper deep-banded in black, Germany, followed by Italy, announced that they were withdrawing from the Non-intervention Agreement until Spain should guarantee that there would be no repetition of the Deutschland incident. Additional German and Italian warships hustled to Spanish waters...
...months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group for 50 years. With primitive equipment the Austins were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer. Out of "purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from...