Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done more to destroy international compacts than anyone who ever lived in Europe, now spoke feelingly of the Geneva war-conduct convention. Without naming the time, place or agenda, He seemed to be trying to suggest that another European peace conference be held...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...
Sumner Welles, outlining the agenda, dropped one exceedingly important hint. The U. S. might be on its way to some big-time developing in Latin America. In order to assure economic cooperation, he said, the U. S. would tender its neighbor loans, short term for "current matters," long term for "purchase of rail and mill equipment, heavy goods...
...French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall, with their British colleagues. Munitions and food supply were said to have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding, mostly by night to escape the eyes of aviation, grew heavier and heavier. Also heavier grew...
...When General Malin Craig retired as Chief of Staff, he put the U. S. on notice that the U. S. military now wants its standing Army to be a fighting army, at least to the extent of five fully equipped divisions on constant peacetime call. Also on the military agenda, now that Congress has voted $961,293,102 to expand and equip the present Army, is a request for many more millions to stock complete equipment for a wartime force...