Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNamara who last fall was a leader in the "City of Harvard" movement. Six weeks ago it was he who got the Council to pass a resolution requiring Mayor Lyons to appoint a citizens' committee to confer with University Hall. And it was the same McNamara who on Tuesday night reopened the question when he traced for the Council the tripling of Harvard's tax-exempt real estate value since...
...other events sharpened the lesson that C. I. O.'s U. A. W. has got to quit fussing or die: 1) Seceding President Homer Martin announced that he would confer this week with William Green on A. F. of L. affiliation for his minority. 2) General Motors Corp. announced that in plants where both C. I. O.'s and Homer Martin's U. A. W. claim bargaining rights, big G. M. will bargain with neither. In the circumstances C. I. O.'s renewed plans to organize Ford Motor Co. were more of an exercise in optimism...
...revolution" not "in the light of prophecy" but as active, ominous, highly contemporary. Joe Strecker's failure to pay further Communist dues was no defense, argued Mr. Jackson. He urged Constitutional liberty of thought and speech for citizens only. Said he: "We don't have to confer upon the guest all the privileges of the household...
...known that the defeated Rightist candidate, on his way to Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...
Conditions grew so chaotic that the editors of the Government newsorgan Izvestia took a hand, invited officials to confer with them, later devoted three columns to shocking revelations and a blunt analysis of what was wrong in the Agriculture Commissariat. Izvestia blamed everything on the lack of a "single coordinating authority which would direct the work in a rational way." Higher officials were wasting their time in endless conferences which brought no results. Sleepy workers were staying on their jobs sometimes 24 hours a day, fearful of showing a "lack of zeal." Said Izvestia: "Real work usually begins after...