Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps to Trieste. And how did the U.S. people feel about it? The State Department, which gets bushels of letters when Palestine, China or Spain is involved, had gotten only a trickle in the 14 weeks the North Atlantic pact was being negotiated. Did this indicate apathy or agreement? As far as anxious State Department men could discern, the U.S. public had accepted, long since, the important principles involved...
...news that Radcliffe tuition would also jump from $525 to $600 immediately followed announcement of the Harvard increase, since under terms of the basic agreement between the two schools Radcliffe's tuition rate "may not be lower than that of Harvard...
Nothing Aggressive. At first, it seemed that no understanding or agreement would be possible. But after four hard days of Chairman Dulles' painstaking diplomacy, in which he was assisted by New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Ohio's Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson and others, a recommendation came forth. It bore none of the ringing affirmations that distinguished the conference's meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter...
Next morning an agreement was announced: a wage raise of 8⅓%, to $64.35 for a 48-hour, six-day week-the same pay offered previously by the cardinal on condition that the men return as non-union individuals. Cardinal Spellman waived the condition, recognized the new union. Both sides agreed to set up a three-man panel to investigate "future adjustment of hours." The cardinal's seminarians laid down their spades and went back to their classes...
Hollywood used to shy away from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...