Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Congressmen were out politicking. Before they left Washington, they had reached a tacit gentleman's agreement that not much serious work would be done in Congress while they were gone. The little that did get done was right in line with the election-year emphasis on economy and tax cuts...
Both Ottawa and Washington were abuzz with talk about the semisecret wartime Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...
...Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century...
Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...
Roosevelt kept secret the provisions of the Teheran agreement ceding 70,000 square miles of Polish territory to Russia. Why did he? Lane, whose bitterness towards the administrations he represented permeates the book, believes that it was simply because Roosevelt wanted to win the Polish-American vote in 1944. He tells of a State Department official who tried to prevail on Franklin Roosevelt to take a firmer policy with Stalin on Poland, only to be told : " 'You may know a lot about international affairs, but you do not understand American politics...