Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval himself read Mr. Borah's interview and remarked pointedly that he had come to the U. S. to confer with President Hoover. Next evening, however, the two met at Secretary Stimson's and talked for an hour and a half. Afterward...
...controversial subjects discussed, almost all had been settled by compromise between Liberal and Conservative groups. Exception : present-day politics and economics, which the Bishops denounced vigorously in a pastoral letter addressed to all the Church. It asked that the U. S. reduce its armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter: "An acquisitive society, as the modern age has been aptly called, stands bewildered in the presence of a crisis precipitated ... by the competitive, profit-seeking principles upon which, it has hitherto been assumed, general prosperity is based...
...manner and swore that he would return to Paris immediately if the question of Reparations was brought up. Yet the spidery signature of Banker Moreau appeared in its due place on the bottom of the report when it was signed. Back in Paris, Banker Moreau was called immediately to confer with government heads, had nothing to say to the Press beyond remarking plaintively...
...year-old Secretary leaped back quickly, suffered only a slight glass cut on his right hand which Captain Cavallini of the Conte Biancamano swabbed with alcohol and iodine. Secretary Mellon immediately hurried downtown to confer with Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Opposition leaders were willing to help. Liberal David Lloyd George was still sick abed, but exact reports of what went on at the Labor councils were carried to his bedside. Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin left Aix-les-Bains, rushed back from vacation to confer mightily with Scot MacDonald...