Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders were trying to jam through a labor law, already approved by the Senate, which would give the railroad unions the checkoff and the union shop (barred by the Railway Labor Act). Virginia's lean, conservative Howard Smith dourly protested. Smith didn't see "why we should confer the Medal of Honor on labor for pulling a railway strike when we've got a war in Korea." When Speaker Sam Rayburn persisted in trying to call up the bill, Smith demanded a roll call...
Touch & Go. After Harry Truman telephoned him last week, Charlie Wilson slipped back to Washington by private plane, hustled from the airport to confer with Stu Symington. Then he checked in briefly with Secretary Sawyer. The mobilizers and stabilizers hoped he would not disturb their decentralized setup, until it became absolutely necessary to create a super-Office of Defense Mobilization. Said Wilson noncommittally: "I am in an exploratory frame of mind...
...Their financial and public aspects, the reputation which they confer upon the institution, and a thousand other forces unite to make college athletics not so much an activity of undergraduate life as joint cooperative enterprises involving presidents, trustees, faculties, alumni, townsmen, and the vast publics of the radio and press," said the Carnegie Report in an introductory chapter...
Middlesex District Attorney George A. Thompson said yesterday that he will confer with the Lampoon's legal council today, presumably to discuss possible Grand Jury action against the Lampoon's parody of mid-western college humor magazines, The Pontoon...
Attlee will confer with the French premier today and will probably take to Washington with him the support of the Paris government for a moderate western policy in Korea