Word: confab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, after motoring up to Cambridge, Mass., where he dropped sons John and Adlai Jr. off at Harvard, Stevenson turned back to New York for a private confab with influential Democrats. This week, looking forward to the big push in Minnesota, he heads out to Minneapolis to shake as many hands as possible before the March 20 primary...
Robert Taft was in Chicago, heart of the Taft country, to help Republicans raise money and to further his candidacy for the presidential nomination. For 30 hours Illinois Republicans reverently escorted their man on a whirlwind schedule from ham-and-eggs breakfast to political confab to press conference to lunch to cocktail party to dinner. At the press conference the candidate was affable and at ease, even when the touchy questions came up. What if General Eisenhower seeks the Republican nomination? "I don't think it would make much difference," said Taft. "The people...
Still suffering from a sharp attack of lumbago, Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion arrived in Washington for a four-week tour of the U.S. After a luncheon with the President and a confab with Government officials, he got down to work on the real purpose of his trip: to help launch the new $500,000,000 Israeli bond issue (TIME, April...
...alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with her. But Gerard won't marry money and Mary can't live without it. There must be many a confab, many a set-to, many a farewell-and at length even a seduction-before the two are made...