Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open season for Governors in the South last week. Twenty of them gathered at New Orleans to confer. The most eminent Governor of all, New York's Smith, was not far from New Orleans, golfing and fishing at Biloxi, Miss. But he did not "take in" the conference. Maryland's Ritchie was over in Florida, but he, too, kept his vacation inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller...
...story had really broken. Only then were they sure that final Reparations settlement will now be made, after ten years of piddling with approximations. After luncheon a purring motor car conveyed Chancellor Churchill to the station, where he impetuously entrained for London. Another car carried the Agent General to confer lengthily with Emile Moreau. Governor of the Bank of France. Rumors from Berlin told that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, stern, forthright President of the Reichsbank was expected momentarily to leave for Paris...
...Darling" are Marine Corps synonyms for Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler. So admirable has been his policing of Tientsin, during the Chinese Civil War (TIME, June 25 et ante), that last week he received a supreme honor from grateful China, an honor which a Chinese town or city can confer only with the unanimous consent of every citizen...
...would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which contains the sweet though unrevealing phrase, "Wherever we were, where were...
Jonkheer Loudon persisted to the last in refusing to reconvene the Disarmament Commission and scathingly declared that, even though plenipotentiaries of all the Great Powers would not join with him in a secret show-down parley, "I am still ready to confer with the representatives of four powers, or three...