Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total deposits. That provision works to the advantage of small institutions most of whose deposits are in small accounts, and to the disadvantage of big banks, only a fraction of whose large corporate and business deposits are covered by the $5,000 limit. But having signed & sealed a truce with President Roosevelt last autumn, the bankers have discreetly bowed to a New Deal measure which many of them detest...
...head-on collision on the edge of a ditch into which a quorum of men and horses roll with neighs and yelps. With these two scrambles out of the way, there is not much left to happen. Saladin, who turns out to be a broad-minded Oriental, proposes a truce which Richard accepts...
...surprisingly cleanly officers' mess in the noisome Gran Chaco last week neutral Argentine General Martinez Pita genially introduced the two grim commanders whose armies battled each other savagely for years until the recent truce (TIME, June 24). Silently big Bolivia's tenacious General Enrique Penaranda, who was nearly defeated, gripped hands with small Paraguay's resourceful General Josè Felix Estigarribia who came so near to winning that it is rumored he will get a life pension of 1,500 gold pesos. After an exchange of champagne toasts all present mellowed...
Bolivians and Paraguayans, hoping devoutly that they will not have to fight any more, accepted this fraternizing of their generals as a good omen that their diplomats are arriving at acceptable terms of peace during the continued truce...
...arbitration formula applied chiefly to how to stop fighting. A neutral military commission was appointed to survey the actual position of the armies on their 530-mile front, to set the armies back from it. Firing was to stop when the commission arrived at the front. A twelve-day truce was to be extended again & again as required. Armistice begins when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will try again...