Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion for English literature has caused three universities to confer upon him honorary degrees...
...Ambassador Sheffield called at the White House to confer with the President before returning to his post at Mexico City...
...their wont to murmur it from time to time, so they murmured "Nervous Nellie" last week when he first summoned to confer with him his former colleague, now become Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah, and later went to confer with President Coolidge, and then issued a statement...
...Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania invited Major Inglis, leader of the operators, and John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, to confer with him separately. He denied that he attempted to effect a settlement in his conferences with them. Said he: "It is not only right but necessary that the Governor of Pennsylvania should keep himself informed;" and also: "Because of the number of States affected the anthracite coal strike is a national question, and I respect the right of the President of the United States to speak the first word...
...Paris, the French Government surprised everybody by sending Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain to Morocco "to assure in the best possible condition utilization of the reinforcements sent to Morocco and confer with Marshal Lyautey on all eventualities and on measures to be taken in order to insure success...