Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of the Titans. Huge, sales-minded Doubleday, Doran, with its stable of reprint subsidiaries, appeared unruffled by all the excitement; Bennett Cerf's new combine watched Publisher Field narrowly. Mr. Field, admitting that "it will be entirely new to me [but] very interesting," continued to confer determinedly with an attentive Simon & Schuster. By week's end Wall Street money, betting on a first-class postwar fight, was busily calling on all the parties concerned, hoping to invest in a winner...
...Calais, the thunder of bombardment died and white flags fluttered in a short truce. Beside a demolished bridge eight miles from the town's center the British general commanding the Canadian besiegers waited to confer with the Calais commander, a Colonel Schroeder...
...Dumbarton Oaks, the U.S., Britain and Russia reached a 20-page agreement on world security (TIME, Sept. 25). This week it was learned that the Great Blueprint still requires more ironing-out; the Big Three must confer again over a major point. The point: Britain and the U.S. agree with China that no nation, if it is party to a dispute, should have a vote in settling the dispute. Russia realistically believes that a major power, being a major power, should always have a vote on everything...
Five for Four. There is another reason for the change. In almost all the other armies and navies of the world there is a rank equivalent to five American stars. When U.S. and British officers confer, the American is inevitably outstarred-and sensitive about it. In Europe Field Marshal Montgomery outranks General Eisenhower, who commands...
Behind the Siena front in Italy, he decorated the U.S. Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark with the sunburst plaque of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. De Gaulle's point: he was the Frenchman entitled to confer French honors...