Word: truce
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...more price-upping than was actually necessary. Fixed-price contracts for future deliveries were to be revised to meet higher costs. Exempt from the plan were doctors, lawyers, preachers, architects, pharmacists and "executive" employes getting more than $35 per week. General Johnson called the whole program "a truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism...
...sure to follow when Chinese hear a leader of their race actually grow bold enough to threaten Japan. The Canton Government of South China headed by General Chen Chi-tang promptly pitched into the Nanking Government "of all China" headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who has made a truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). In view of this truce. Generalissimo Chiang had dispatched 60,000 troops to quell War Lord Feng, only to receive demands from General Chen that he call them back. "Canton," wired Canton's Chen, "will not look on [at the sending of troops against...
...precarious hush of the truce between Japan and the Nanking Government (TIME, June 5), a small, discordant clamor was heard last week far to the north in Chahar Province. It was the private war of "Christian General" Feng Yuhsiang, ostensibly to drive the Japanese single-handed out of China's "lost provinces...
...hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper...
...General reduction of world tariff rates or, if that proves unattainable, then stabilization of world tariffs at the levels existing under President Roosevelt's Tariff Truce (TIME, May 22). Since prices and therefore tariff rates are based on money, tariff stabilization is plainly impossible unless the world's chief currencies are also stabilized...