Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked U.S. newsprint manufacturers to confer with its trustbusters, warned pointedly: "Every effort will be made to prevent any joint efforts to increase prices" of domestic newsprint...
...cleared by the Government departments concerned, the President approved a whole series of important appointments, e.g., that of Herbert V. Prochnow, 58, a Chicago banker, as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. By week's end the President was well enough to hold his first important business conferences since he became ill, conferred twice with Vice President Richard Nixon (see below). This week he planned to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the forthcoming Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference in Geneva...
...week Richard Nixon went steadily about the task of being considerably more than a Vice President but substantially less than a President. Again he presided at meetings of the National Security Council and the Cabinet; every day he visited the White House executive offices to confer with presidential aides on day-to-day business; pointedly he announced that the Eisenhower team was carrying on cooperatively without any sign of "internal disputes and jealousies." Time and again he waved away questions on politics, insisting that he would not discuss the political situation until the President is back...
Meanwhile, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy arrived in Boston last night. He said at the airport that he expected to confer today with Assistant District Attorney John M. Harrington...
Pyne said he would confer with Athletic Department officials today about arrangements for student use of the lot. The area holds up to 1,000 automobiles and could easily accommodate car-owners who cannot get space at the Business School, he added...