Word: truce
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...theoretical odds against him, proceeded calmly to build his Cabinet. There was a chance-slim but a chance-that with well-hated Colonel von Papen definitely out, the Reichstag might be cajoled by Chancellor von Schleicher into adjourning until next year under the familiar German formula of a "Christmas Truce...
...purpose to rule, the President served drastic notice last week. He issued two more decrees, the first re-enforcing federal control of the Free State of Prussia (TIME, Sept. 12), the second extending to January 1933 the "civic truce" (ban on political meetings not approved by the government) which was to have expired last week...
...lately left Avco's chair (TIME, Oct. 31). Presently they summoned Avco's new Chairman Robert Lehman, President Cohu, and Cord's hard-bitten Vice President Lucius Manning. From noon until nearly midnight they argued, bartered. Then, on terms which will doubtless remain secret, they emerged with a truce: the Avco board shall be reduced from 35 to 15. Five will be chosen by the present regime (probably Harriman, Lehman, Cohu, Sherman Fairchild, one other); five will be Cord men (Cord, Manning, Vanderlip, two others). Five will be "independent prominent men mutually agreed upon. . . ." The deal had to be ratified...
...linen was in off the line. The Cord front-line forces vacated their enormous quarters in the Hotel Biltmore, where they had kept three leased telephone wires busy to Chicago and Los Angeles, entrained for Chicago headquarters to meet Mr. Cord, who had been in California. But whatever the truce meant to the principals, it meant nothing to Mr. Trumbull, who announced that his committee would continue to gather proxies...
...Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping...