Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard the last of the Palestine mess, were sputtering through a chain reaction of anger. Wrote London's News Chronicle: "If President Truman would take a long, long voyage far out into the sea and speak to no one, there might be some hope of reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues to fulfill its contracts to the Arabs . . . Britain and America will in effect...
Concluded Stalin: "As far as the U.S.S.R. is concerned, it considers that Mr. Wallace's program could serve as a good and fruitful basis [for agreement]. A peaceful settlement of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. is not only possible but also doubtlessly necessary in the interests of general peace...
...shirts. This week, in Chicago, union leaders went in to surrender to Armour and Co. officials. They were ready to accept the 9?-an-hour increase the companies had originally offered (the union at first demanded 29?, later was willing to take 12?). There was a snag to final agreement: the company now demanded the right to fire strikers who had taken part in the violence. Until that was settled, the strike would drag...
...though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will the price of rice go down...
...such free-style individualists as the American Unitarian Association, the effort was doomed from the start. The writers found widespread Unitarian agreement on only three points: 1) belief in the dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological there seemed almost as many opinions as there were Unitarians; toward God, attitudes ranged from emphatic interest through vagueness and indifference to flat rejection. Sample views...