Word: conferance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
...crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of our drought just so we meet it in a humane, constructive, sensible...
...victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee where a Democratic nomination is as good as an election, it was not surprising that Senator McKellar should confer at length with this fountain of political fortune...
...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...
That something new and hot was brewing in Vienna appeared when Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg was drooped from the Cabinet and Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Italy to confer in secret with the Dictator on his farm (TIME, June 15). So anxious were Britain and France to find out what this meant that their Foreign Ministers pressingly invited Dr. Schuschnie to meet them in Geneva at the last session of the League, an invitation which he refused...