Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher William F. Hofmann of the Long Island Press (circ.: 71,341) in Jamaica thought his strike troubles were over when he signed an agreement with the American Newspaper Guild early last week. But when he discharged 27 returned strikers for "reasons of economy," the rest walked out again. An editorial picket line scuffled with pressmen, kept most of them out of the building. At week's end Publisher Hofmann announced that the Press was involuntarily suspending publication, first time in its 118 years...
...Yakima, Wash., which had no airline at all. The Denver Chamber of Commerce immediately petitioned the Post Office to allow United to do the same for Denver. TWA and others protested violently, but Wyoming Air, the sole system which would be directly hurt, offered no objection because of an agreement with United. Last week, to everyone's surprise, Post Office Solicitor Karl A. Crowley decided in favor of the petition, set up a new and important ruling- that an airway was not to be considered a geometric line like train tracks but a "zone of influence." Therefore any airline...
...fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
...Student Council, with the approval of the swimming team has seen fit to postpone until next year action on the proposal that swimming be made a major sport. The Student Council's committee and the swimming team's committee were in agreement that next year would present a more opportune time for consideration of this matter...
...talk? I'll write you first of the things nearest home. Yes, of course Professor Whitehead: Process and Reality, Science and the Modern World; and the little essays: Nature and Life, which unfortunately Santayana has not seen. One cannot say that Professor Whitehead and Santayana are in philosophical agreement on many points. But I can assure you in one way they're absolutely alike: Both call Bertram Russell, "Berty". But even here all is not clear: For I understood from Santayana that it was he who gave Mr. Russell that name; but if I remember correctly Professor Whitehead told...