Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made for arbitration of disputes not settled by earlier steps. Mr. Weckler said ho, arbitration was impossible; that it meant, in the final analysis, the handing-over of plant operation to outsiders. Neither side disclosed what kind of arbitration plan was discussed. Mr. Frankensteen straightway produced a 1933 Chrysler agreement, in which arbitration was a major provision of Walter Percy Chrysler's company-union plan...
Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...
First fruit of the Reynaud-Simon agreement was resumption, last week, of telephone service for businessmen between London and Paris. Next fruit: restoration of regular mail schedules...
...oddest diplomatic rituals in the world is the annual negotiation for fishery lease agreements between Japan and Soviet Russia. The talks begin in November. Everyone knows how they are going to come out-as they always have, with a compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island...
Harvard and Yale are in hearty agreement that intellectual freedom is, or should be, the greatest blessing of a university. To hear these ancient foes singing a harmonious duct of such social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John...