Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Henderson and unctuous Soviet Ambassador to France Valerian Devgalevsky. Because of Britain's insistence that Russia give definite promise to cease Communist propaganda in the British Empire before ambassadors be appointed. Russian insistence that her national dignity demanded an exchange of ambassadors before discussing definite points of agreement, negotiations were quickly deadlocked (TIME, Aug. 5). Russia's Devgalevsky packed his briefcases, went back to France. Said Plump "Uncle Arthur" Henderson...
Last week M. Devgalevsky was back in London talking busily with "Uncle Arthur'' Henderson. "Oriental bargaining" produced two points of definite agreement : 1) Russia agreed to withdraw all Soviet agents at present engaged in communist propaganda in India; to give no further help, directly or indirectly, to Indian Communists. 2) Britain agreed to the exchange of ambassadors before discussing the delicate subject of Russia's pre-War debts...
Electric. When the same man is chairman of two companies in similar lines and one of these companies owns a 13% interest in the other, besides having an agreement to give it financial service, a merger in which the first company offers to acquire the remaining stock of the second is not astounding news. Last week this condition occurred when Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond and Share Co. offered to exchange its stock for Electric Investors, Inc. While Electric Investors, Inc. is a strict holding company with 87% of its investments in utilities, Electric Bond and Share...
...main obstanle obstructing any application of this principle, as President Angell points out is "the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another." These difficulties would surely be considerably reduced if some intercollegiate athletic council existed which could discuss the plan...
...great obstacles to be overcome, however, are not incident to the game itself at all. The first has to do with the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another. No one college is likely to be willing to withdraw the supervision of the coach unless its chief competitors follow the same practice. For example, some of Yale's opponents have been willing to adopt this policy but others have not. Only once therefore, so far as I am aware, has Yale actually tried the method...