Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilded Hearse is the story of one day in the life of Publicity Man Eliot. It happens to be the day in 1938 that the Munich Pact was signed, but the stunt of employing momentous events as a backdrop for Eliot's neurotic strivings for cheap success never comes off. To bring it off requires more than making a character tune in on the depressing broadcasts of that day every few pages and glibly crediting the hero with a "premonition of shapeless disaster...
Canada was desperately hoping that the Hyde Park Agreement could be kept alive. The oral pact made in 1941 between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King had treated Canada like a 49th state in sharing scarce commodities-especially oil and steel. Last week, in a speech in New York City, Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S., made a bold bid for perpetual preference...
...August 1939, after the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact which freed Hitler for his war against the West, Stalin toasted Adolf Hitler: "I know how much the German nation loves its Führer; I should therefore like to drink to his health...
...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
...cotton planters were convinced that they had a legitimate grievance. Coloring is common in other foods; even butter is often colored. But the cotton planters had always lacked enough political support to outlobby the Midwest dairymen. At their convention, the planters sealed a pact with representatives of Midwest soybean farmers, who sell soybean oil to margarine makers. With Southern Democrats to support cotton men and soybean farmers pressuring Midwest Congressmen, planters thought they had a good chance to get the tax killed. Cried white-haired Charles G. Henry, council chairman of the margarine committee: "We are finally going to beat...