Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allies who signed the treaty also promised to disarm. America has been trying in a tactful way to compel obedience by both sides. The moral influence of the United States in working out a peaceful settlement of the disarmament problem is all the greater because of what Hitler has done. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have been sincerely sponsoring every move looking toward disarmament in the world. It is inconceivable that at the very time when Europe is in acute need of disinterested counsel and conciliation that the United States should scuttle the ship. Hence the latest message issued...
...conversations were to be transmitted play-by-play to the President. He was expected to ask no less than a lump payment of 50% of the debt. The British talked of offering 10%. Equally important were to be the discussions as to what kind of dollars and pounds any settlement was to be made in. Both sides were hopeful that the (See col. 3) two great off-gold nations, sitting head-to-head by themselves, might come nearer to an understanding on international currency stabilization than was possible at the many-tongued London Conference fiasco. What the temper of incoming...
Awaiting the settlement of the Retail Code, governing department stores, mail order houses and general retailers of all sorts large & small, were two collateral codes, the Drug Code and the Food Code. For into them was to go the Retail Code's key clause-or the principle it laid down -on price-cutting. The question of hours & wages was no issue; that had been settled by the President's blanket code. Labor was no problem. The nation's salespeople are wholly unorganized. The essence of the proposed magic was to end forever the blight of cutthroat competition...
...Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire's War debt to the U. S. He sailed last week on the Majestic with genial, expansive, moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Ronald Lindsay. With elaborate understatement, Sir Frederick observed: "I am visiting America to observe the feeling toward the question...
...flight of the brokers ceased as suddenly as it began. And while Wall Street jubilantly referred to it as the "modern Boston Tea Party," New Jersey realtors plummeted into gloom. President Whitney of the Stock Exchange halted his workmen and negotiated a settlement with Newark's Mayor Ellenstein. The brokers' gesture had cost them some $100,000, but this they could easily meet with $100 initiation fees collected from the 1,300 applicants for membership in the proposed Jersey exchange...