Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace and privately knighted M. Peter Bark...
...unicameral National Assembly of not more than 120 members, elected for three years. Salary: $2,500. The annual meeting of this Assembly shall not last over 100 days and no special session shall last over 30 days. In times of war "or other national emergency," the Assembly can confer dictatorial powers on the President...
Never perhaps had a British Foreign Secretary departed amid greater misgiving. If Sir John triumphed, he would deserve double acclaim, for he was considered last week to have pretty well bungled things in advance. In the House of Commons, where he had dallied persistently last week, refusing invitations to confer with the Premiers of France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission...
...mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order of the Garter. Few Englishmen and no Frenchman or Italian believed him when he told the French and Italian Ambassadors in London that he could not find time to confer with Premier Flandin and II Duce before going to Berlin "because of engagements...
Because she has kept up for 15 years the U. S. and Scottish philanthropies of her late husband and because she customarily spends her summers at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands, the Senators of St. Andrews University voted to confer an honorary Ll.D. on Manhattan's venerable Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...