Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When comparisons are made between active participation by experts and students in gatherings like this, and a mere attendance in the galleries during a lecture on the same subject, the balance is far in favor of the Conference plan. No qualms should be felt about playing give-and-take with men who may be members of the Cabinet, university professors, or financiers fresh from the mines of Wall Street. They are by no means as unapproachable as they sound, and by accepting the invitation to the Conference show their willingness to confer with their younger and less experienced colleagues...
...French Lick Springs Hotel belonging to Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart, Brown's prospered. Spring and autumn, businessmen and politicians of the Midwest flocked to French Lick to drink Pluto water, rest, golf, enjoy themselves losing money at Brown's. Illinois' politicians still confer there regularly...
Last month President Roosevelt calmed the fears of utilities managers and investors by inviting interested power tycoons to confer with him and Federal power officials on a plan whereby Government and Business, instead of engaging in disastrous competition, would pool their resources for cooperative distribution. To the White House last week went Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie, Georgia Power's Preston Arkwright, Hartford Electric's Samuel Ferguson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, J. P. Morgan's Thomas Lament, to discuss Government and Business joining in a power pool. With TVA's Arthur Morgan...
...kissing each man and clasping him hard. Then out stepped the Alcázar's heroic Commandant, bearded, emaciated Colonel José Moscardó. The circles under his eyes were greenish black and he trembled as he walked. "Colonel José Moscardó," said the White Generalissimo, "I confer upon you the Cross of San Fernando, and I confer this same cross collectively upon the whole company of Spain's greatest heroes." He then raised Colonel Moscardó to the rank of General and appointed him Commander of the Eastern Army...
First arbiter in this dispute involving 40,000 square miles of territory was Spain's King Alfonso XIII in 1910. He soon admitted that the problem was too difficult for him, suggested "direct negotiations" between the two Republics. After much wrangling they agreed to confer in 1924, pledged themselves to submit to the U. S. President issues on which they could not agree. Now 12 years after this agreement, they have got as far as the White House...