Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: "People discovered last week that the Government awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to me 'after consistent gallantry, conspicuous energy and marked efficiency during the World War. I have known about the award lor five years, but I asked the War Department not to confer the medal upon me while I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...many years has been a corresponding member, was elevated to this position, which entails all the rights of full membership, under the most flattering circumstances, being elected in the first vote by an overwhelming majority, Full membership in the Institute, is the highest honor which France can confer upon a scholar...
...good friend: We have judged it expedient to confer the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well-beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our Privy Council in Canada, with the especial object of representing in the United States of America the interests of our Dominion of Canada...
...Porter Resolution, Mr. Gray explained, proposes that Chinese representatives should be invited to Washington to confer on the revision of the treaty. A revision will be of obvious benefit to China but will not be detrimental to the United States in any way. "Our exports to China are of the sort that probably would be admitted duty free," said Mr. Gray. "This is not so with England and Japan, however, for it is from those countries that cotton goods are now sent to China, and the cotton industry is one which the Chinese wish to foster by protection...
...have sent reporters to interview Bishop Diaz in "Spanish and French," described him wearing his bishop's ring on his left hand, as though it were a wedding ring. Roman Catholic bishops wear the episcopal ring on the ring finger of the right hand, the hand with which they confer the episcopal blessing...