Word: conferance
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...what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact and not as a theory. . . . They are counting on another conference at an early date. . . . Failure to confer further, it was pointed out, would be a suicidal policy from a railroad standpoint...
...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
...Council has been debating whether to confer "The Freedom of the City" on Sir Harry, and had heard several councilmen wax unetuous over his morale work during the World War, not forgetting to add that "his only son lies buried in a hero's grave...
...Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late in the week he seemed to be getting the troops he sought. Marine Commander-in-China General Smedley Darlington Butler rushed north from Shanghai, landed two troop ships carrying 1,900 U. S. marines at Tientsin, and personally hurried up to confer with Mr. MacMurray at Peking. Meanwhile the British and French were rushing troops to protect their legations at Peking, and observers thought that only the very greatest tenacity on the part of U. S. President Coolidge would prevent the U. S. Administration from being swept into the policy long advocated...
...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...