Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty Minutes. On the initiative of Chiang Kaishek, Marshall testified, all Chinese political parties-including the Communists-had agreed to confer about ways & means of unifying China. Marshall's directive said that the unification should be built around Chiang, and all Communist armies folded into his. It also provided that Chiang was to be pressured into making concessions too, on pain of losing economic and military aid from the U.S. A big meeting in Chungking had been agreed upon before Marshall got there, just before Christmas, 1945. Marshall had two weeks in which to persuade Nationalists and Communists...
...separate phone calls from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union prompted executive officers of each organization to vote in favor of supporting the picket line. They did not confer with management until a day later, while other members walked idly in the rain outside the factory. The more they talked to the strikers and those still on the job, the more confused the issue became. As a result, both executive boards recanted their position and set up a fact-finding committee...
Saxe, at campaign headquarters in Cambridge, announced that the name of the organization had been officially changed to "American Patriots for Raising the Monitor." Meanwhile, Norman flew to Washington, D.C., last night to confer with Navy Department officials about salvaging the famed ironclad...
...Hans von Kress, new president of the Free University of Berlin, will visit the University today to confer with Reginald H. Phelps '30, director of University extension, on adult general education. Tomorrow Kress will appear at the Medical School...
...Within the area of my authority as military commander . . . I stand ready at any time to confer in the field with the commander in chief of the enemy forces, in an earnest effort to find any military means whereby the realization of the political objectives of the United Nations in Korea, to which no nation may justly take exceptions, might be accomplished without further bloodshed...