Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
...signing the Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Pact, assume that the possibility of war was about to vanish? Decidedly not, most people would agree...
What the Railway Labor Executives' Association would agree to was a continuation for another year of last year's Willard agreement-10% temporary deduction from the present basic pay scale (TIME, Feb. 8). In renewing the 1932 agreement, railway Labor wanted it made plain that while the pact was in operation, neither side was to apply to the Board of Mediation for revision of the basic scale...
...Britain, France, Germany and Italy declared that, as signatories to the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy," they are ready to sign with other European states a stronger pact renouncing "recourse to force" in settling European disputes...
...been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially. When last spring the coppermen of the world decided to curtail production to 20% of capacity, Roan Antelope meekly agreed to a quota of 23,000 tons. Last week when the coppermen were meeting in Manhattan to renew their pact, Roan Antelope's representatives arrived bristling with demands and challenges. African copper has long been considered a potential threat to the copper supremacy of the U. S. Roan Antelope's attitude last week transformed the threat into appalling reality. The demands were made at first through Dr. Otto...