Word: confab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of Luzon, largest island in the Philippines, alarmed by inter-tribal strife, recently called a confab. Invited were the mountain tribesmen, who believed their hunting grounds were being encroached upon. Special word and promises of presents went out by jungle telegraph through the Cordillera range to the tribesmen...
...Ibilaos showed up, dressed in G-strings, scowling fiercely. Silently they shook hands all around, accepted the presents. Up to that point everything went well. Then suddenly, before the officials had a chance to explain the purpose of the confab, the Ibilaos vanished as they had come. It was all over...
...around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...
...embodied a clause upholding such power. I think John Marshall, at the Convention of Virginia, said the power of the Supreme Court should prevail over that of Congress in constitutionality issues wherein there was no reasonable doubt. I think James Madison's record and minutes of the Philadelphia confab that created the Constitution show that this power was fully discussed and intentionally embodied into the Constitution (also the power to ignore the opinions of the high court when Congress deemed it in the general welfare so to do). I think Jefferson was in the "overwhelming minority" of big shots...