Word: conferance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slump and Franklin Roosevelt's attitude appeared to reflect a tacit change. Likewise modified was the attitude of many a business man who has groaned because of unhealthy Federal deficits. The President last week reiterated his intention of balancing the budget in 1939, had a long Hyde Park conference with Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Fearing the medicine of reduced Federal spending more than the disease of unbalanced budgets, businessmen, like the New Deal, began to sing a different tune. ¶ In Boston, where...
...acceleration seems to be related to a doubling of certain segments of the chromosomes, heredity carriers in the germplasm. Colchicine also renders hybrid plants-which are normally sterile-fertile. Dr. Blakeslee pointed out that this action is as important in plant science as it would be in zoology to confer the power of reproduction on a mule...
...Onetime Braintruster, Raymond Moley advanced the hypothesis that the sentiments in Franklin Roosevelt's Chicago speech had been supplied largely by William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Ambassador Bullitt did indeed confer with the President before the fireside chat. Then, before sailing for Europe, Ambassador Bullitt-who as a matter of fact indicated surprise when he read the "quarantine" passage in the President's Chicago speech after it had been mimeographed at the State Department-flatly contradicted Editor Moley's story to the press...
Only immediate effect of this announcement was to make Japanese diplomats slightly uncomfortable; only certain practical result, to give assurance that the U. S. would sit in with other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty when they confer, probably within two weeks, on what to do about Japan. On the morning that the President reached Washington, after two days at Hyde Park, he called in Secretary Hull, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis -who may well be the U. S. Conference delegate-and Sumner Welles...
...products being sold below cost in some areas in order to meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative manner to stabilize the price level to conform to that normally prevailing in contiguous areas where marketing conditions are similar...