Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train puffed out. M. Rosengolz and staff proceeded to Berlin where they were to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, now sojourning "for his health" in the western political cockpit...
...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...
...bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
...considered at length the situation at the time of the severing of relations with Princeton and made a report to the Board of Overseers. It took action also in approbation of the President in condemning certain articles in undergraduate publications and approved the appointment of a committee to confer with the Athletic Committee and the Student Council...
Before the Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa, the Speaker, Rodolphe Lemieux, created a mild sensation last week by descending from the Chair and speaking as follows from the floor: "The Postmaster General and the Minister of Customs are both Christian gentlemen, and I hope they will confer together and devise some means to exclude from Canada the numerous pornographic newspapers and so-called 'tabloids' which are now being imported from the United States and sold on every street corner in the large Canadian cities...