Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior year, the undergraduate body of Phi Beta Kappa took an epechal step toward dissipating the belief of many that a gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
With considerable show of optimism and hopeful gesticulation, Statesmen Herriot, MacDonald, and Bennett are planning their trips to this country to confer with President Roosevelt concerning reciprocal tariff reductions. It is understood that the main purpose of the meeting will be to reach some sort of "understanding" as a basis for the World Economic Conference this summer. This problem of finding a general success which can be also a particular success for each party concerned, presents difficulties which may be found insuperable...
...have seen no statement indicating that the President-elect desired any dictatorial powers. . . . Should Congress undertake to confer upon him dictatorial powers, I would hope, I would expect him to fling it back in the chattering teeth of a pusillanimous Congress with the reminder that he was the President of the U. S. and not its dictator...
...Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, who flew to Warm Springs for a conference on War Debts. Earlier in the week Secretary of State Stimson had telephoned the President-elect the contents of a British note accepting, with reservations, the invitation to confer on War Debts and related problems after March 4. Two days later Sir Ronald was ordered back to London to advise His Majesty's Government on U. S. debt ideas.* Again by telephone Mr. Roosevelt told the State Department he would like to see the Ambassador before he sailed this week. The President-elect outlined his debt ideas...
...last week Tuan suddenly set out from North China for the Capital, Nanking. "I am going to visit my daughter," said he at first. Later: "I am going to enter a monastery and study Buddhism, after I confer with the government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that...