Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Margherita documents with the League. He then made a new offer to Yugo-Slavia, the terms of which were not published. It is understood, however, that for the present both parties will neither invite nor accept outside arbitration of their differences, but if they are eventually unable to reach an agreement the entire Fiume question may be placed before the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague...
...desires than of definite aims. To restore the joy of labor by repudiating "personal gain as an economic motive" thus eliminating a "mechanical, inhuman work-relationship" is the key-note of the campaign; and together with this, to develop rather than to level the individual. Whether the movement will reach a successful conclusion depends upon whether the movers are strong and the aim attainable...
...such business on a cash basis -he meant that the miners should receive just as much credit as before, but that the operators should find other means of collecting their bills. The operators saw nothing constructive in these suggestions, and the conference broke up. It took two days to reach this misunderstanding. Thereupon the Coal Commission called in John L. Lewis for the miners and Samuel D. Warriner for the operators, " urging" them to go into a joint conference with their associates and report whether they could not come to an agreement, permanent or tentative, such as would avert...
Accompanied by his daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, Viscount Birkenhead was due to reach Manhattan on board the Mauretania. They were scheduled to leave immediately for Williamstown where Lord Birkenhead will deliver his lecture to the Institute of Politics ( TIME, Aug. 20). He will also address the American Bar Association at Minneapolis on Developments...
...ravages of the Japanese beetle in Southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania have assumed alarming proportions, destroying all fruit and growing plants within its reach. The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression. The damage to crops is immense. The Department of Agriculture is organizing control measures of two kinds: rigid quarantine by inspection of crop shipments; importation of five varieties of harmless insects which are the beetle's enemies. This marshaling of one species against another by human direction will be perhaps the main tactical principle in the coming war between insects...