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That meant Europe had decided to scrap public conferences for the summer in favor of private conferences. Two of sensational interest were immediately announced. In Chancellor Adolf Hitler's entourage at Berlin it was authoritatively said that he would soon confer with Premier Benito Mussolini; and Prime Minister James Ramsay McDonald announced that M. Barthou had accepted an invitation to confer with him. The Italians also invited M. Barthou to confer with Senor Mussolini...
Roosevelt on his summer trip to Hawaii would confer with Japanese bigwigs who would meet him half way across the Pacific at Honolulu. Efforts to check these reports found the White House noncommittal, but Ambassador Saito hotly told Washington correspondents, "It must be imagination...
...months of February and March, 1935, picked students will confer with high government officials on a tutorial basis. Operations of the major functions of the national administration will be witnessed at first hand and analyses prepared in conjunction with visiting professors and minor "brain-trusters...
...honorary degree which Yale will confer on President Roosevelt will attract more attention than any other of the hundreds which the universities and colleges of the country, as a whole, will confer within the next few days. Usually such degrees are not announced in advance; since they are conferred in person and very rarely "in absentia,'" the recipient is cautioned to regard the news of the honor about to fall upon him as confidential. It is not yet known to whom will fall the added distinction of receiving their degrees on the same platform with the President. In his case...
...those members of his class who have, as he has, made marks in the world. He represents a country which has not been so honored by Harvard is one of its leaders since 1002. When Prince Henry of Prussia was given the LL.D., white the University pushed to confer the degree last year upon the 'new French and English ambassadors...