Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried back and called a parley of the Press Lords at the Savoy Hotel. All were ready to compromise, but Beaverbrook had decided to rub his colleagues' noses in the mess they had made. As he put it: "I drew my sword and swore not to place it back in its sheath until I had punished them...
...Georgia's Cox, Virginia's Smith, North Carolina's Clark and Dies of Texas-all in varying degrees anti-Administration. Moreover, the new ratio on Rules will be nine Democrats to five Republicans. Small wonder that Franklin Roosevelt last week called his Congressional leaders to a parley next week in Warm Springs...
...Spanish Leftists think they can make friends with Rightist Salazar, they may have reason to think they can make friends with Rightist Franco. In Paris last week, agents of the Leftist Government disclosed that a scheme to partition Spain-rejected by Barcelona-had been brought up at the Munich parley. During the Czechoslovak crisis General Franco showed himself definitely cool to Germany. Berlin was enraged by an announcement from Burgos that it would remain neutral in case of a European war. This week the Rightist Spanish Government announced that it is "preparing immediate repatriation" of 10,000 Italian troops...
...latest reports the Slovak-Hungarian parley at Komarno had given Budapest no territory except the town of Ipolysag and the Slovak portion of Satoraljaujhely on the border. Hungary was asking 6,000 square miles with a population of 1,200,000 but was apparently getting no backing in this demand from Germany...
...bigwigs in executive session in Atlantic City to prepare for the Federation's convention in Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green has rapidly gained confidence, and last week he was feeling sure of himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O., that in the meantime A.F. of L. would be glad to take disillusioned C.I.O. unions back...