Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudly the new president called the roll of his college's famed sons- Thomas Jefferson, Peyton and Edmund Randolph, John Marshall, James Monroe, John Tyler. Graciously he placed his guest in the heroic line. His address finished, President Bryan turned to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws on Franklin D. Roosevelt, "restorer of hope to a desperate people . . . imaginative employer of scholarship as the servant of the State." After compliments to President Bryan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Thomas Jefferson...
...beginning of their last stand may well come next week, when the gold-bloc countries confer at Brussels on their monetary future. With their export markets fast slipping away to the lands of cheap money, factories are idle, citizens uproarious. Belgium will offer a plan for reciprocal and preferential treaties, segregating the gold bloc from the rest of the world. Dutch bankers are talking of pooling colonial empires and drawing in Italy. But fact remains that only France, with better than a 100% gold coverage for its currency, can hold out indefinitely?if Jean Frenchman can stand...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, Secretary of Commerce, who declared the U. S. should be "aeroized" just as it was "motorized." For a means of "aeroizing" the country he suggested that the Howell Committee confer with "some of the outstanding leaders in the motor industry...
Sept. 80--President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of capital and labor next month in an effort to establish a trial period of industrial peace, he disclosed tonight in a vigorously worded message to the nation...
...possible, Italy. In such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn promise of Germany," he has said, "is not enough for me." Last week he announced that next month he expects to confer with Benito Mussolini in Rome, seeking Italy's signature for his ring around Germany...