Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morocco. To the foreign offices of France, England, Spain and Italy, Secretary Kellogg sent a note assuring those countries, which were about to confer on the administration of Tangier in Morocco, that the U. S., though not represented at the conference, expects continuation of the "open-door" policy in the internationalized part and zone of Tangier-equal rights, opportunities and protection for all-comers. France and Spain have lately been the de facto joint rulers of Tangier, with England looking on. In 1923, a Tangier conference was held without representatives from Italy or the U.S. At this month...
...mother [Dowager], Queen Marie, and my sister, Princess Ileana, will soon visit me in Paris. It is a fact that important political events are occurring in Rumania. That is the reason my mother is coming to confer with...
...alas! Imperial Heaven ... observe these things! ... I, the Minister of Heaven . . . am scorched with grief. . . . I am inexpressibly grieved, alarmed and frightened. . . . Knocking my head upon the Earth, I pray Imperial Heaven to hasten and confer gracious deliverance, a speedy and divinely beneficial rain...
...their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things. They were asked whether limiting the time when their pupils might confer with them to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week would give relief, but they replied that, so long as the regular routine of the college proceeded, their relations of friendliness and helpfulness to their pupils would be marred by any thing that resembled closing their...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...