Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London since 1941 as Franklin Roosevelt's "defense expediter," Harriman became a Lend-Lease liaison officer between the U.S. and Great Britain, did a bang-up job, journeyed to Russia with Winston Churchill to confer with Joseph Stalin. He is said to have made a great impression on the Soviet leader...
...British and Greek staff officers have traveled by secret routes to confer with Greek guerrilla and patriot leaders under the very noses of Axis troops...
...when British industry responds to Eric Johnston's invitation to confer with U.S. businessmen, either or both of those factors might upset his competitive applecart...
...Washington, John Lewis stalked into the Statler Hotel room where the mine operators were conferring, slammed down his brief case and barked: "Gentlemen, you have had plenty of time to confer, and I suppose you are ready to sign a contract. You are familiar with the War Labor Board proposal, which we accept, but we want $2 a day additional, as we originally requested. [Pause] And I do not want any one-legged counter proposals from you!" At midnight the miners struck...
...such occasions high U.S. or British officials come to the bank's defense and explain that its business, under McKittrick, is so conducted that none of its operations could possibly confer an advantage on any belligerent nation at the expense of another. These operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank...