Word: truce
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...would be remitted to subscribing operators. Last week Miner Lewis' coal strike was within 48 hours of going into effect and Senator Guffey's coal bill had not even emerged from committee. While Congress haggled, President Roosevelt called in Miner Lewis, drew headline credit for WINNING STRIKE TRUCE for another fortnight...
...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...
Although Julius Elias came out on top with 2,030,000 readers, everyone knew his Herald was losing money and nearly everyone predicted its circulation would slump heavily following the truce. Last fortnight Chairman Elias complacently told Odham's shareholders, in annual meeting, just what was what. Excerpts...
...interim head of NRA, to succeed S. Clay Williams, President Roosevelt appointed his man-of-all-work, Donald Richberg. At the same time he patched up a truce with organized Labor, William Green and John L. Lewis emerging from a White House conference all smiles...
...September 1837, having captured a Seminole chief. Major General Thomas S. Jesup persuaded Osceola to meet one of his officers under a flag of truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...