Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This editorial had been swallowed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before he spoke at Scarborough, and Premier Mussolini followed it by sending to London and Paris a note in which he stated that Berlin would have to be invited to make a fourth at the parley on Spanish affairs which Britain and France had sought to have composed of only themselves and Italy. Italian and German editors suppressed or delayed printing the Chicago speech until they could bracket it with news of the enthusiasm of Madrid and Moscow and of how the U. S. State Department has licensed Soviet...
...special committee 30 days to prepare the attack. Last week President Weber called representatives of radio, cinema and record companies to deliberate with A. F. of M. officials in Manhattan, made sure they would come by threatening a nation-wide musicians' strike August 14 in case the parley failed...
...resolved last week when G. M. President Sloan capped Leader Lewis' blunder with one of his own. After winning much public sympathy by his reasonableness throughout the strike, Mr. Sloan decided to get tough, flatly rejected Secretary of Labor Perkins' summons to a further Washington peace parley. As if they were playing a game of "Going to Jerusalem," a second principal in the deadly serious Automobile War of 1937 lost his seat in the New Deal's favor...
...oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The new leaders, Harry Renton Bridges in the West and Joseph Curran in the East were fighting their own battles on their own lines, aided by alliances with longshoremen and other maritime workers with whom Andy Furuseth never stooped to parley...
There can be no more proper way in which to allow Harvard students to express their sincere sympathy for the cause than to put the meeting for once within the pale of respectability. The decision to let a well-organized parley in the soothing atmosphere of Sanders Theatre take the place of the unforgettable free-for-all on the Widener steps or other unhallowed ground should draw to the gathering the best elements of the anti-war movement...