Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consulting lawyers to see if United World can breach its contract and if United World is acting under a collusive agreement with the University Theatre...
...Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
...conquest in China. Meeting at Buck Hill Falls, Pa. for their annual four-day get-together, 145 delegates of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America found themselves up against the problem of whether to keep missionaries in Communist-dominated areas. The delegates found they were in almost complete agreement. No denomination intended to order its missionaries to evacuate. In all cases the decision was being left to the missionaries themselves. And for the most part, missionaries were electing to stick...
Last week, the Hungarian Communists had the remarkable gall to invite the Vatican to negotiate an agreement on the status of the Hungarian church, "regardless of the personal case of Mindszenty." The Vatican rejected the overtures as a "puerile maneuver." Earlier, the Holy See had declared: "Whereas it has been dared to lay hands sacrilegiously on a very eminent cardinal . . . all those who have performed the aforesaid crime have incurred excommunication . . . and have been declared infamous...
...temporary military agreement was made with the Russians to split the country in two. Within a year it was apparent that the Soviets had no intention of negotiating a reunification settlement. But it was then too late to retrieve the industrial plants which had been bundled off to the Soviet North. The U. S. found itself in control of almost three--quarters of the country's population, two-thirds engaged in agriculture, mainly rice growing--the rest living in de-industrialized cities, unable to produce at all. The final break came in May, 1948, when the Russians switched...