Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steadfastly since the Versailles Peace Conference (1919) the Republican Party has answered, "Never, except in such specific matters as naval equipment and narcotics control.'' But the U. S. has $1,350,000,000 invested in Germany. And Herbert Hoover has moved around the world enough to appreciate how, increasingly, Europe's business affects U. S. business. As France well guessed, it was not pure altruism that made a Republican U. S. President call for an international debt holiday to save Germany from fiscal chaos. Through the breach in U. S. Isolation thus made, and encouraged by almost...
...President's move was in response to an invitation from Great Britain to confer with the six major signatories of the Young Plan-Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Germany. President Hoover's debt holiday plan had started the rescue work but more was now needed. Germany wanted a big loan. Private bankers were reluctant to advance her cash until her political and economic stability was more assured. France was haggling for "political guarantees" before she would agree to a German loan. Apparently it was thought that the presence of the U. S., reluctant to discuss European politics, would...
Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
...went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, called at the White House to discuss plans...
...over long-distance telephone with Senator Borah in Idaho, Senator Robinson in Arkansas, Representative Hawley in Oregon. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, junketing in Canada, received a call from the White House in a Toronto drug store. Other Senators and Representatives, Republican and Democratic, trooped into the White House to confer with the President, trooped out again nodding their heads in silent approval. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was reached by telephone in England for a long talk with the President...