Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier, ensconced behind the well polished brass knocker of his official residence, summoned Chancellor Churchill for a conference. Up to last week Mr. Baldwin had taken the attitude that the miners and owners would now have to settle their differences among themselves. Having conferred with Mr. Churchill however, Premier Baldwin followed up the avenue opened by the Chancellor to the extent of calling representatives of both the miners and owners to confer again with the Government...
Having thus blazoned the Cabinet's shift toward the miners, Mr. Churchill invited the representatives of the Mine Owners Association to confer with him at the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street. Though the owners continued obstinate in their demands that the coal strike be terminated by regional agreements which would shatter the power of the great unions, Mr. Churchill remained firm in the Cabinet's new position and submitted a plan of compromise for consideration by the owners in detail...
President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation accepted their invitation to confer. The owners' representatives were separately conferred with. Soon Mr. Smith declared himself happily in agreement with a proposal drafted by the Bishops. The owners' representatives were silent...
...moment seemed ripe for attempting to jam through the Chamber M. Caillaux's program (TIME, July 19), whereby the Chamber should confer dictatorial power upon the Cabinet for four months to save the franc. M. Caillaux announced that the Cabinet intended to employ this power to make binding once and for all the Franco-U. S. and Franco-British debt agreements, "as is," and without further dickering...
...Republican Senator from Wyoming, senectissimus of them all, father-in-law of General John J. Pershing. The duties of snowy-haired, keen-eyed Senator Warren and his Appropriations Committee are to find out the financial needs of the various Departments of the Cabinet, to frame them into bills, to confer and bicker with the House Appropriations Committee, and to guide deftly the resulting bills through Congress. Then he is left to explain the Government ledger to the people...