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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Carbuncle | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Who Rules the World? | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Armistice | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...Tariff Truce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: U. S. Tariff Truce | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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