Word: confab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
Following the lead of a coaches confab out in Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds bounced out of a one-hour confab with President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes one noon last week to announce the biggest expansion of U.S. power capacity ever heard of. Dimensions: five years...
...wandering around about through cellars and basements," had to be bathed by force. Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis. But to Hugh A. Fulton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, this was just another Hopson dodge to escape justice. After months of confab, Government medicos declared him legally fit to defend himself...
Last week, after a confab between Secretary Hull and Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, a corner of this embargo was raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...