Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...House remained oblivious to all this. After 20 minutes the Senate, having sworn its new members and appointed a committee to notify the President it was in session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said...
Significance. The chief Democrats' truce offer was smart politics but it was also, conceivably, motivated by sincere concern for the condition of the country. Perhaps by coincidence or perhaps because the public felt reassured, prices on the New York Stock Exchange rose steadily for five consecutive days. As Republicans and Democrats both knew, the prime movers for any legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind...
Judge McGoorty said he declined the offer. "Such a truce is unthinkable," he told the grand jury. "There must not be any compromise with lawlessness...
...first U. S. Bosch company. Patent litigation over the name continued for many years, was decided in favor of the U. S. company a year ago (TIME, July i, 1929). But Robert Bosch prepared to appeal for the right to use his own name and last winter a truce was established. To run 49 years, it provided that in Cuba, Mexico, Canada, U. S. and U. S. dependencies American Bosch could use the magic word "Bosch," outside of this territory it would have to use "American Bosch." Similarly, in this U. S. territory Robert Bosch would have...
Last week a far more effective truce between Robert Bosch A. G. and American Bosch was contemplated. American Bosch plans to issue more stock, acquire the U. S. Robert Bosch, become United American Bosch Corp. Significant is the omission of the word "magneto," since the Bosch activities are constantly widening. Instead of competition, complete harmony will reign over the relationship between Robert Bosch A. G. and United American Bosch, each acting as a sales outlet for the other, each cooperating 'in research. What thinks Germanophobe Garvan, who stoutly protested the formation of American I. G. Chemical Corp. (TIME...