Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After one of the most tense weeks of his public life, President Roosevelt hurried to Hyde Park, to rest, to vote, to confer with Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. At 5 o'clock on a rainy morning the Prime Minister's private car was left on a Poughkeepsie siding. Attached to it was the private car of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. Said the Prime Minister, asked what he would discuss with the President: Everything...
...comment on "such matters as Japan's obligations under the Tripartite Pact" would be premature. Onetime Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's foresighted interpretation (last December) of the Axis agreement was recalled: if any of these three powers is attacked by an outside power, the three signatories must confer and decide whether the case comes under Article 3. Tokyo brass hats knew that any move south, despite Admiral Lützow's pleasing picture, would have to reckon with heavily garrisoned Singapore and, most probably, the U.S. Fleet...
...flew from Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
Members of the staff will be on hand just outside the exit to confer the coveted prize upon the winner, and, if need be, to assist him back to his room after the battle. Less fortunate classmates will be compensated with free issues and an opportunity to sign up for Harvard's official news agency, which carries news from only the most unimpeachable sources...
Next step was to confer, confer, confer. He saw nearly everyone even remotely connected with defense management; got bales of opinions, advice, ideas, tips, plain and fruity gossip. His regulated mind coldly assayed strengths and frailties, measured promise against performance. Night after night he trotted back to the calm of the White House, puzzled over his notes; through whole days read books, articles, memoranda. He tried to weigh objectives, ponder human values, disregard individual personalities. Finally he drew his conclusions, drafted three plans basically similar...