Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week did President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt summarize the results of their second White House conference on War Debts. Their November meeting had ended in deadlock which their December exchange of public telegrams had not broken. Secretary of State Stimson's diplomacy was credited with bringing them together on an agreement which seemed to mean more on paper than in practice. The outgoing President had won his point: a start would be made at once toward debt settlement, even if it were nothing more than an invitation to Britain to confer after March 4. The incoming...
Greek citizens who did not invest in Insull securities in the past may have a chance to do so in the future. United Pressman Anthony Kedras reported from Athens last week that Mr. Insull was ready to confer with a group of fascinated Greek bankers anxious to exploit Greek railroads, draining projects, electric concerns in the Insull manner...
Chosen by the United States to confer with experts from other nations in preparation of a program for the World Economic Conference, J. H. Williams '18, professor of Economics, was in a preliminary meeting with Secretaries Stimson Mills, and Chapin, at Washington, yesterday afternoon...
...Widener budget, any readjustment would be disturbing. But to the uninitiated these questions seem to require serious attention and a full answer. If the 'House Libraries are inadequate, why must that discovery be made only after the reading period has begun? Why cannot the House and Widener Librarians confer, with reading lists before them, and come to some informed decision? These loom prominent in the undergraduate view of the problem. They will not be answered by unexplained denials and references to higher authority...
...high teas and staghunt dinners. But the genius of witty, companionable von Schleicher is to keep on good or at least civil terms with Germans of every party except the Communists. This genius was amazingly shown last week when General von Schleicher barely failed to induce Adolf Hitler to confer with him-the only logical subject of conversation being terms on which the Nazi (Fascist) Party might agree to support the von Schleicher Cabinet...