Word: confered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regional conferences between representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce and farmers (suggested at the Cabinet meeting). Secretary Wallace was said to favor them. But conferences (to produce results) must do more than confer...
Alexandre Millerand, President of France: " Various political interpretations were placed by Parisians on a report that Pope Pius XI intends to confer the Order of the Golden Rose upon my wife, and also present her with a golden rosebud insigne...
Colonel Tarafa, the Cuban railway magnate who wants to tax American sugar companies on their private Cuban railroads and ports, went to New York to confer with the sugar interests. He conferred and issued several statements that a compromise was being reached. Others cast doubt on this prospect. If a satisfactory solution is not reached the State Department will be called upon to decide whether the Tarafa railroad bill,* now in the Cuban Congress, is detrimental to the rights of Americans who have capital invested in the Cuban sugar industry...
There was nothing more to it. The President continued to confer copiously with Government officers. Overtly he did very little, aside from taking a few preliminary steps in the coal quandary. But his influence began to be felt...
Major General Enoch H. Crowder, V. S. A., retired, Ambassador to Cuba, was ordered by Secretary of State Hughes to return to Washington to confer on the Cuban situation. General Crowder, former Judge Advocate General of the Army, author of the details of the military draft during the War, has in several capacities been the protecting genius of Cuba ever since the Spanish War. Lately he has been responsible for the financial rehabilitation of that country. His instructions to return to Washington indicate serious concern on the part of the State Department over the financial course adopted by the Cuban...