Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House announced that Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton (to Britain) and Minister Hugh Gibson (to Switzerland) have been asked to return to Washington to confer with the President concerning the proposed League of Nations preliminary disarmament conference...
Since being graduated Horween has made a careful study of modern football as played in the Middle West and West and last fall coached the Chicago Bears, on which Red Grange starred. A fortnight ago Horween traveled to Cambridge to confer with Mr. Bingham and to consult with the committee regarding the appointment of assistant coaches for next year, the names of whom will be announced later...
...Berlin. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France...
...point. His interest was, after all, in pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...
...another step in bureaucratic dictatorship, is scarcely harmful. One can not imagine its engaging in activities more noxious than the cultivated equivalent of free seed distribution. The legislative branch of the government which several times has made abortive attempts to weaken the Supreme court is not likely to confer unseemly authority on a newly created department. With only the powers granted by a jealous Congress, the bureau could have little autocratic influence on the schools of the nation...