Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicity promised in the treaty. It is based partly on the British proposal for a similar Permanent Disarmament Commission which was to have had one tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative...
...phonograph records, especially made by the Nashdom Abbey Singers, will be used to illustrate the lectures. Mr. Hughes will discuss the importance of the period from 1440 to 1460 in English musical history, including the character of the music, instrumental problems, syncopation, and the composers...
...must this subject be taboo? Are we not entitled to discuss and weigh the physical fitness of our public servants as well as their morals, patriotism and statesmanship? If not, then...we can safely prophesy that this generation will not pass away before a despot sits in the White House and we can righteously withhold our pity from the milksops, nincompoops and sycophants, who then make up the population, as unworthy of any other fate than to bear the cruel hand of oppression...
...Hughes dislikes dissenting opinions and does his best to bring his Associates into line with the majority. On the New York Court of Appeals Justice Cardozo had a record for the small number of dissenting opinions which his Court issued. After the Supreme Court has heard cases, the Justices discuss them in private before the Chief Justice assigns them to different members of the court to write opinions. Since, according to tradition, the Justices express their opinions at such gatherings in reverse order of seniority, Justice Cardozo speaks first. In that strategic position his scholarly gentleness, his lucidity...
...lectures," said Dr. Fainsod, "will discuss the history of the Third, or Communist International, against the background of earlier efforts at social internationalism. The first two lectures will focus attention of the challenge to traditional loyalties involved in the effort to create an international labor community based on class. The remaining lectures will trace the transformation of the Communist international...