Word: truces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resources on the St. Lawrence for 50 years to private utility companies. Democrats have demanded public development of State property. Time and again this Democratic doctrine helped Alfred Emanuel Smith win the Governorship. Franklin Delano Roosevelt carried it forward as a party policy. Last year Governor Roosevelt secured a truce in the old fight while a special commission of five experts investigated the feasibility of St. Lawrence power developed by the State. In February the Commission brought in its report: State development of power was highly practical, soundly economic, provided transmission and distribution to the consumer were left to private...
Ever sensitive to British opinion when something vital is involved. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, the great mediator who brought Lord Irwin and St. Gandhi together for their truce (TIME, March 2, et seq.). broached the subject last week as delicately as possible...
...industry. A flurry of price-cutting suddenly changed to an open burst of cutthroat competition. Prices were slashed from 35? to 24? in the first mighty blast. The second gust toppled them to 19?. Then there followed tales of hurried secret conferences among alcohol men, of a truce. Prices became firmer, but the storm had done its damage. Alcohol men conceded that it will be a long time before business is done at 35?, or the now-to-be-marveled-at 1929 high...
...March lion and lamb have settled their annual differences under the benignant influence of the April sun. Today another truce will be confirmed when the tiger from Nassau walks amicably by John Harvard's side. The hatchet has been buried for many months, but it will be a pleasure to throw another spade full of earth upon the grave...
...prospects for a truce between France and Italy as regards naval armament have dimmed considerably since the incompatible demands of the two countries have been made known. France has demanded a greater number of replacements before 1936 than Italy is willing to grant, while the ratio of French submarine tonnage to the English cruiser and destroyer is a possible source of trouble. To those in closest contact with the situation, there has never been much hope for a satisfactory solution...