Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain truth is that Labor cannot afford to waste time and energy now in a standing battle with the Lords, even though victory is certain. With the naval parley now in full swing it would be folly to turn aside for the mere purpose of thrashing a Tory majority in the House of Lords...
...trend of the times indicates that the intelligent way to argue is to do it in the form of parleys. The younger contemporary of the London Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...
Throughout the land that early morning countless citizens listened at their radios to the benevolent voice of George V, King and Emperor, as he opened the London Naval Parley (TIME, Jan. 27). No Columbia System listener knew then that a good part of the current carrying the imperial voice over that hook-up had passed through the body of Operator Vivian, who was too preoccupied with his tingling task to hear the speech...
...NAVAL PARLEY...
...Pilgrim Society dinner for delegates to the Five-Power Naval Parley, in London...