Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1837, having captured a Seminole chief. Major General Thomas S. Jesup persuaded Osceola to meet one of his officers under a flag of truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...
...rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...
Last fortnight some 8,000 school superintendents, principals and teachers turned up in Atlantic City for the winter's biggest pedagogical parley: the convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. The superintendents rambled up & down the boardwalk, talked shop, patted each other decorously on the back. It was a Sunday afternoon and the convention would not get fairly under way until Monday morning. The educators sunned themselves...
Italy and Austria: In graceful tribute to the success of Foreign Minister Laval and Premier Mussolini in their" recent Rome parley (TIME, Jan. 14, 21) Britain last week "cordially welcomed" the declaration of France and Italy that they mean "to collaborate," and agreed that Britain, France and Italy shall "consult together if the independence and integrity of Austria are menaced...
...Intolerable for France." Just as grey and graceful Ambassador Davis and silver-haired, silver-tongued Prime Minister MacDonald were congratulating themselves that Japan, having denounced the Treaty, must certainly bear all blame for disrupting the London parley, Japanese diplomacy abruptly whipped out a two of spades...