Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arguing and agreeing, airing big plans and uttering big grievances. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which aims to limit foreign competition with U. S. artists...
...around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties, most of 'whom also subsequently jumped into the legal fray. Daugherty started his particular lawsuits in 1924, dragging them on with no success for ten years until he suddenly established, on the basis of his original verbal agreement, his partnership rights. If that victory was upheld on appeal, which will be heard this week, Daugherty would get the entire kitty...
...most extraordinary thing about the agreement", Langer stated, "is that on the very same day that it was made public, Italy was reported to have landed more than 4000 troops at Cadiz. This is sufficient proof that the agreement did not aid the British position...
...agreement represents a liquidation of the Ethiopian affair rather than the formulation of a new policy by either Italy or England toward the Spanish crisis. Written in very general terms, it can not have great effect because it makes no effort to solve the problems caused by the attitude of great powers to the crisis...
...however, hard to see," he continued, "how under the terms of the agreement Italy could get any Spanish islands in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, from the rumpus Spain has been raising for the past 200 years about the English at Gibralter, I don't think it likely that she would give Italy any islands...