Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deadlock. It soon became apparent that Premier Baldwin faced a titan's task in attempting to mediate between the Coal Miners' Federation and the Coal Owners' Mining Association, both of which seemed disposed to bargain for terms more favorable to themselves than those embodied by the Baldwin Government in its post-"general strike" proposal* for settling the coal strike...
Three weeks ago he was reported in Georgia inspecting with a group of strangers certain textile mills. The natural inference was that he intended placing contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided...
...Extremely well authenticated reports from Paris indicated that the Russian Commission was empowered to negotiate the granting of Russian oil concessions to French capitalists, in return for which the loans just mentioned would be advanced to Russia. Fiscal experts opined that unless the Soviets are willing to bind their bargain by well protected concessions of this nature, no bargain will be struck...
...Vilayet of Mosul, provided that Turkey should be granted as much of the Vilayet as she wished. The reply of His Majesty's Government was that they were trustees for Irak, that they were not possessors but mandatories, and that as mandatories and trustees they could not bargain away the rights and interests of Irak and her people in exchange for concessions...
...game, nor against students who play football. It is in the interest of those who wish really to "play" the game that the CRIMSON takes this stand against the overemphasis of football which has changed the game from a sport to a business, and a public utility into the bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics...