Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered: "If the colored people apply for admittance, my order is to admit them. I am not going to be a party to an unlawful gentleman's agreement...
This week, on the day the rail strike was to end, the Western commandants would get together with the Russians to try to work out a solid agreement on trade and traffic between the West zones and Berlin. Meanwhile, the steady day & night roar of the planes-which had brought terror to Berlin during the war and defiant hope during the peace-would continue as before. The U.S. announced that Operation Vittles would be carried on indefinitely; it was too important a weapon to be dismantled...
...roof-garden ballroom of Batavia's elegantly seedy Hotel des Indes, 40 white-suited delegates and aides representing the Dutch, the Indonesians and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia met one evening last week to put the finishing touches on a Dutch-Indonesian agreement. After a quiet 45 minutes in the steamy 90° heat of the ballroom, the business was over. Jogjakarta, the Java capital which the Dutch had taken forcibly from the embryonic Indonesian Republic 6½ months ago (TIME, Dec. 27), would be peacefully returned...
Equal Status. The agreement cleared away the last diplomatic obstacle in the way of a conference at The Hague, scheduled for Aug. 1. There Dutch and Indonesian delegates would try to set up the United States of Indonesia, a sovereign nation with a status equal to The Netherlands' own under the Dutch crown. The Indonesian Republic (Java) would have a large but not necessarily a dominant voice in the U.S.I. The Dutch hoped that more moderate elements in the other islands would balance Javanese extremists and thus form a basis for an orderly transfer of rule...
...most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...