Word: truce
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Washington, March 21--The Roosevelt strategy in the automobile labor crisis is to arrange a truce to last until the Wagner Bill is acted upon by Congress, observers believed tonight...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...
...biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling its gold re serve. The other secret of his success was caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion-dollar size. Stillman's only intimate was Lawyer John W. Sterling, crotchety bachelor who carried punctuality to the split second, fussiness to the point of boycotting his club for exactly one week when anything gave...
...America are usually comic opera affairs. Despite bloody tales coming from the Chaco region the struggle there between Paraguay and Bolivia probably falls into this category, for the list of casualties is unimposing and both sides seem quite willing for the battle to go on indefinitely. After a short truce which was agreed to only after considerable urging by the assembled American diplomats the war was resumed when a Commission from the League of Nations failed to do anything save distinguish itself by its peculiarly inept handling of the matter...
...Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost completely demolished the southern army of Bolivia just prior to the signing of the truce. Bolivia, however, has taken advantage of the truce to recuperate, banish the peace party, and get rid of the German general, Kundt. Apparently, she is now ready to enter the struggle with renewed energy...