Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
After ten weeks of negotiation, undertaken at President Roosevelt's request, the Association of American Railroads and the 21 standard brotherhoods and rail unions finally agreed on a way to take care of superannuated employes. Most important feature of this agreement between management and labor was that the railroads promised to drop their lawsuits so that when the third railroad pension law goes through Congress it will stick on the statute books. The roads were willing to do so because the new plan provides that 1) some $50,000,000 of taxes which are due under the second...
...between the United States and the Philippines are to be terminated at the earliest practicable date consistent with affording the Philippines a reasonable opportunity to adjust their national economy. Thereafter it is contemplated that trade relations between the two countries will be regulated in accordance with a reciprocal trade agreement on a non-preferential basis." As soon as this news hit the Philippines, shares of local companies on the Manila Stock Exchange dropped an average of 12 points. It looked as if President Quezon had sold his country down the river, had done nothing but bring ruin several years closer...
...might now veto his use of it. If, however, he can get independence or some form of autonomy before 1940, he can with the greatest of ease lower tariffs on Japanese goods. Rather than permit this, the U. S. would probably find it highly advisable to make a trade agreement that would cancel prospective U. S. tariffs against Philippine goods in order to keep from losing the Philippine market to Japan...
...thoughts which perhaps had never before crossed our mind. We find ourselves constantly looking away from the printed page, staring into space to work out in our own mind the meaning and value of his words. And, strangely enough, we are more than half the time in agreement with...