Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban- American Manganese Corp...
Last week Germany's Ley and Italy's Cianetti met to sign the first pact between Nazi and Fascist labor organizations. They denied they were founding a "Fascist Labor International'' but the alignment of their followers along the Hitler-Mussolini "Axis" was patent...
Under the terms of the Labor Pact, officially recognized last week by the Italian and German Governments, immediate exchange will begin between the two countries of workmen, labor leaders and foremen to mingle and study each other's methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number...
...with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that during the last few months Germany has done her best to justify...
Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural...