Word: powwows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, G.O.P. national, state and county committeemen from eleven western states met for a two-day "Save America" powwow. Most committeemen were content to grouse about the liquor shortage, while their political optimism ran high. They listened to optimistic speeches, passed routine anti-New Deal resolutions...
Last week the U.S. officially moved into the eleven-month-old United Nations powwow on postwar education. To London went the State Department's broad-beamed, broad-minded Ralph Edmond Turner, a brilliant and experienced educator. He will sit as an observer with the representatives of ten other United Nations (and the still unofficial observers of Russia, China, India, the British Dominions). Chairman is British education chief Richard Austen Butler...
...outside the powwow knows its exact agenda or how it is progressing. But U.S. educational circles felt sure that the discussion revolved around the hopeful principles adopted last month by a major meeting of U.S. and foreign educators at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Findings at the Ferry...
Such was the gist of a three-day powwow held last week by the 61-year-old American Transit Association. In Chicago's famed Palmer House, some 800 transit men heard enough criticism, ominous prediction and plain bad news to make most of them sorry they ever made the trip...
...Miss Beatty dictates for half an hour to one of the "angels" (secretaries) who handle her voluminous mail. At breakfast, she confers with staff members, collects ideas from Husband Bill, her No. 1 legman. Grabbing a cab at 10:30, she reaches the studio in time for a brief powwow with program guests. After the program she goes to teas, movies, dinners, the theater, often gets home past midnight and soaks up more information by reading in bed until...