Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Ambassador Dawes held a reception, spied New Jersey's Senator Edge, whom President Hoover, it is reported, will soon make Ambassador to France...
...American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates held in trust and plenty of innocent widows and orphans on whom the bank's allotment will be palmed off all over the United States...
...late President Harding held a conference on unemployment, appointed a committee to investigate, of which Secretary of Commerce Hoover was chairman. Revised as a "Committee on Recent Economic Changes," it last week submitted its report. Keynote: Prosperity...
When the Senate trial was balked, the Governor, in a white linen suit, held a reception in his office beneath the Senate Chamber. Admirers swarmed about, demanded his autograph. He gave it thus: "Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana by the grace of the people...
President Hoover was quick to sense the necessity of further assistance, unofficial though it was. for the reparations conference. Therefore, last Sunday, at the White House, he held an extraordinary conference of U. S. Government leaders at which a modification and reduction of German payments to the U. S. were agreed upon. These changes in U. S. claims, designed as a moral offset to the Stimson statement and as a new gesture of "friendly co-operation,'' were trivial. But they would, if accepted, be sufficient to put the U. S. in a position where its unofficial representatives...