Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national implications of the McKee candidacy were clear. James Aloysius Parley, the Democracy's New York State as well as national chairman, had spent two days in the city prior to Mr. McKee's fateful announcement. He had been closeted with Edward Joseph Flynn, New York's Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis...
According to leaks from the parley, Salesman Cox said to Prospect Bonnet: ''I can show you that your fears are groundless. Here, my good friend, let me put all my cards on the table and explain. You do not understand America's position or what she is trying to do. The United States is having its first taste of prosperity in three years. That cannot be jeopardized...
While the attentions of the people of the United States are being absorbed by efforts to fight the depression in this country, and to arrange for the united attack upon the depression in the coming world parley, an almost unnoticed, but not therefore unimportant movement is going forward throughout Europe. The whole continent is rapidly crystallizing into two groups: those in favor of, and those opposed to, revision of the treaties of Versailles. Especially rapid has been this solidification ever since Italy and England came out in favor of some kind of change in the status quo. France, whose whole...
Through his latest move in the field of finance, President Roosevelt has given a good indication of his diplomatic mettle, and at the same time has very definitely strengthened the bargaining power of the United States in the approaching tariff parley with Messrs. Herriot, Bennett, and MacDonald. It was very neatly timed. With seeming Machiavellian finesse, Roosevelt waited until the European statesmen were in Mid-Atlantic, definitely isolated from home counsels, before he announced America's abdication from the gold standard. Their arrival in New York should find them considerably non-plussed...
...aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming conference, and one which he will undoubtedly need if this is not to be just one more parley...