Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main text, but attached to it, however, is a slightly significant agreement by General Motors, "the within a period of six months we will not bargain with or enter into agreements with any other union or representative of employed" without gaining the U.A.W.A.'s sanction. Simply put, the union will have, for six months, free rein in its membership drives, will be on top of the labor heap. Thus this minority labor group got a very real concession...
...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...
...pension plan was knocked out by the Supreme Court. Promptly passed was another one which has not yet reached the Supreme Court but was held unconstitutional by a lower court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement age is to be 65 or 70, a vital point since thousands of railroad men are close to retirement age right...
...gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist way the American way out of the local dilemma. This consists in arresting the ravening leaders of both factions, exporting the scabs, disarming the factory guards, dispersing the picket line and forcing a reasonable agreement on both sides by an aroused and forceful civic leadership...
Presidents Angell, Dodds, and Butler of Yale, Princeton, and Columbia issued statements last night expressing their complete agreement with and confidence in the new examinations which all Freshmen scholarship applicants at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will have to take, starting this spring...