Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indiana's Democracy has been busy cleaning house to prepare for inspection by its big boss, white-crested and handsome Philippine High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt, now en route from Manila to confer with President Roosevelt on Far Eastern conditions and scheduled to stop off in Indianapolis February 19. Two things Boss McNutt expects his lieutenants, Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Sherman Minton, to have well in hand when he arrives are: 1) the boom for Paul V. McNutt for President of the U. S. in 1940, and 2) the defeat of Senator Frederick Van Nuys for party...
...paper the 73 supporters of the Anti-Lynching Bill controlled nine more votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
Raymond Dennett '36, 2G, graduate secretary, and Arthur W. Page, Jr. '40, author of the proposal, will confer with Long in the near future and work out details...
...policy which will enable visiting lecturers to remain in Cambridge and confer with students for several days after their talks will be inaugurated this year...
...Davis also quote President Roosevelt as saying, that the sanctity of treaties must be upheld, all completely ignored Dr. Koo's plea that it be upheld, none proposed any measure to uphold it. With Italy voting "no" and with Norway, Sweden and Denmark abstaining, the rest of the Conference voted to adopt the Davis-Eden-Delbos motion, and the Conference adjourned to Nov. 22. Mr. Eden, enraged because the British Cabinet had just gone over his head in deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state...