Word: truce
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...Bituminous operators of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, anticipating a general strike when a current wage truce ends on April 1, jointly engaged John W. Davis as their chief counsel and negotiator at a reputed fee of $100,000 per annum...
That debaters in the U. S. Congress were trying to observe a truce on the Nicaraguan situation and other subjects ticklish to the Pan-American Congress...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
Came Armistice Day, and as 11 o'clock ran around the world the former Allied peoples gave themselves up to two minutes of silence; for it was on that day nine years ago, that the truce was signed in a brown railroad car of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in the Forest of Compiegne...
...Tariff Truce...