Word: conferance
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...firm, visiting her this summer to confer about her since-published Lark Ascending, showed her a copy of TIME, whereupon she subscribed, and we rarely receive a letter from her in which she does not make some reference to her latest copy...
Though the Press played a rattattoo to the general fanfare with volleys of small bullish items, there was but one major development in the business situation last week. From Washington to Manhattan journeyed Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board to confer with Owen D. Young's committee of twelve bankers and industrialists seeking ways & means of pumping credit into supine industry. His mere appearance in Wall Street touched off a minor rally in a temporarily flagging market. With the Young Committee he discussed a plan for setting up a Commodities Credit Corp. with $100,000.000 capital, largely...
...called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally accepted: the 90,000 blue-coated Schupos (Prussian state police) were about to be mustered under the control of the central...
...Wired President Hoover for a personal conference on the St. Lawrence River development. The U. S. and Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention...
...satisfactory settlement is reached for debts, the creditor governments will ratify, and the agreement with Germany will then have its full effect. But if such a settlement is not obtained, the agreement with Germany will not be ratified and a new situation will arise and the interested governments will confer on what is to be done. In such an event, the legal position is that which existed before the Hoover Moratorium...