Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word or Issue? Truman had given them an issue-statism. Asked at his press conference for his own definition, Truman was offhand. It's simply another one of the scare-words, he declared. He had looked it up himself in several dictionaries and none of them were in agreement. But others seemed to know what it meant-notably New York's John Foster Dulles (see below...
...tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." Last week in Bridlington the Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 organized workers, had full possession of its heart's desire-a Socialist government. Yet under the seeming agreement among the delegates in the Spa Royal Hall was frustration, and perhaps tragedy...
...year barter agreement between the Manchurian comrades and the Russian comrades. It will swap Manchurian soybeans and other raw stuffs for Russian machinery...
...syndicate was even more annoyed and upset than Harper's Bazaar. It accused Vogue of breaking by three weeks a "gentlemen's agreement" on the fashion release date, indignantly described the action as "a moral abuse of confidence." What worried the French designers was the prospective loss of thousands of dollars' worth of business: they were afraid that U.S. designers would flood the U.S. market with copies before their originals could make the boat. At week's end, the syndicate had reportedly decided on a stern punishment: banning Editor Jessica Daves of the American edition...
...Manhattan, Vogue's editors protested that they had reported the Paris fashions last year in the same Sept. 1 issue "with no protest" from the syndicate or the trade, and had no "official notice" of any change this year, had signed no new agreement. Added Vogue: "After 50 years of reporting French fashions, it is hardly likely that Vogue would now deliberately violate any promises given to the Couture...