Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most G. O. P. offices this year, there is no picture of Product Harding. ... A telegraph instrument chatters with nervous importance down the hall. There are private wires, telephone as well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs of Mr. Good's assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary...
When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash. Two days later the patient, timeless Papacy made its Most High Opinion known through Count Dalla Torre. Printed...
Before flying to Washington to confer with officials upon lifting the ban against him, he addressed a crowd of sympathizers at Wall and South Streets...
...flood of U. S. pictures from German theatres. He spoke of "cooperation in the European film industry and the word 'film-Europe,' " strongly suggestive of a European cartel aimed at the U. S. cinema industry. When he had finished, alarmed U. S. observers hastened to Paris to confer...
...amusing story that Gailey found Feng laboriously trying to improve his knowledge of English by attempting to read the life of Abraham Lincoln, and offered to help him to the extent of tutoring an hour a day at any time when Feng was free. Feng left Gailey to confer, with his adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain, and was amazed to have a breakfast set out before him consisting solely...