Word: conferance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner was Chancellor Bruning assured of even luke warm Hitlerite support than he made a quiet announcement that became the week's big news. Germany's Ambassadors to Britain, France and Italy were hastily summoned to Berlin to confer with the Chancellor. Heinrich Bruning called in the British Ambassador, suave Sir Horace Rumbold who returned to his Embassy in a great flurry and called up the British Foreign Office. Somebody tapped the telephone wire. Within two hours Berlin newspapers were on the streets with the news that Germany had served notice that at the next Reparations conference, scheduled...
...consumer's counsel" (lobbyist) salaried at $12,000, White House-appointed. Senate-confirmed, to confer with the Tariff Commission...
...brotherhoods had invited the rail executives to confer with them on "wages and employment." The carriers had appointed representatives to accept the invitation and "negotiate to a conclusion" a pay reduction. The roads formally asked for a 15% cut, hoped the brotherhoods would voluntarily accept 10%. Declared President Hoover last week: "It is hoped the conference arranged for will lead to an amicable and early agreement...
...Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; $4,500,000 more from Bankers Trust Co. and Guaranty Trust Co. Solomon R. Guggenheim and his able new partner Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co. until its dissolution last month, were to sail for Chile this week to confer with government officials on changes in Co-sach's corporate structure...
Afterward the farmers held a mass meeting in Owensboro's public square, passed some resolutions. Most important were: 1) no crop to be planted next year; 2) a committee to go to Washington to confer with the Federal Farm Board on a tobacco pool. The farmers expected aid from the Board since its stated purpose has always been "to further co-operative marketing." Besides this, the Board's much-criticized chairman, James Clifton Stone, once organized southern tobacco growers into the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Assn., saw it become inactive, would know from experience what...