Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin florid Minister of Finance Rudolph Hilferding hastily assembled an informal and secret conference of richest Junkers and tycoons to confer with the tall, imperious president of the Reichsbank when he arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
Years afterwards during the War, a trembling orderly faced the Tiger, who had dashed out from Paris to confer with Generalissimo Foch. "He is at Mass, M. le President," stammered the orderly. "Shall I tell him you are here...
...soft-voiced suave herpetologist. He came from Brazil† where he is director of the Institute Sorotherapico at Butantan, State of Sao Paulo. His mission was to give a talk or two at Harvard's School of Public Health, where he is formally a lecturer, and to confer with Mulford's President Milton Campbell, his good friend and supporter. Dr. do Amaral is consulting director of Mulford's Antivenin Institute of America...
Finally Mr. Gilbert consented to observe that he would confer "quite unofficially" with President Coolidge and President-Elect Hoover in Washington, later rejoining Mrs. Gilbert at her home in Louisville, Ky., and returning with her to Europe in about a fortnight. To hotly pressed queries about Reparations, the Agent General answered repeatedly: "You'll find that in my report...
Soon King Alexander was able to confer with the politicians of all parties only to discover that no bas' or community of interests existed on which to found a new government. The situation had grown steadily worse since the assassination of Croat leader Stefan Raditch in Parliament (TIME, July 28) and last week the numerous Croatian deputies clamored furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with...