Word: confab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Washington was full of rumors of what Harold Ickes said to Sidney Hillman, what the President told Claude Pepper, and the earnest confab between Jimmy Byrnes and Frank Walker at a Cabinet
This week Mrs. Stassen's mother and sister moved in with the Governor's wife and two children. There was a final testimonial dinner, a last confab with G.O.P. leaders. Then Ed Thye took the oath as Governor. His platform: continue the Stassen administration...
...turn aircraftmaker. Andrew Jackson Higgins announced that, although the Maritime Commission had just closed his huge New Orleans shipyard for lack of steel, the yard would be reopened to construct flying boats. Higgins had just talked with Kaiser, will soon meet him in Washington for a three-way confab with President Roosevelt. When & if Kaiser and Higgins (and maybe others) turn out flying boats as fast as they say they can, the United Nations might begin...
This astronomic increase came out of a Washington confab between the auto makers, the Army & Navy and SPAB. First official announcement came from Chrysler which said it had been asked to triple its tank output (its tank arsenal is already the world's largest), double its output of anti-aircraft guns. One sign of total collaboration-to-come between Detroit and Washington: G.M. created a new War Emergency Committee under Vice Chairman Donaldson Brown, and sent arch-diplomat Dick Grant to Washington for the duration...
...just a piddler," all-American Chub Peabody asserted yesterday noon at the coaches and sports writers weekly confab at the Palmer House where he was the guest of honor...