Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon assembly, the resolutions formed by the different committees were discussed and voted upon. The two resolutions of the Committee on the Reorganization of the League, providing for the establishment of a committee to discuss international questions which might lead to conflict, and of a permanent committee to discuss proposed reorganization of the Covenant, were both voted down...
...finances armament loans. As the President of Union Europeenne Industriale et Financiere he has his finger in 230 armament and allied enterprises outside France. Chief of these is Czechoslovakia's Skoda. In this firm French, German, Czech and Polish directors come together in the friendliest spirit to discuss the problems of increasing European consumption of armaments...
...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...
...great Middle West Utilities Co. Bankers described the uneasy last days of secret meetings and suspicions before the April 1932 crash of Insull's jerry-built Jericho. Said the First National Bank's executive vice president, slow-spoken, huge-shouldered Edward Eagle Brown: "We didn't discuss all this in Mr. Insull's presence. He was the most dominating man I ever knew. You wouldn't discuss such things in his presence-not if you knew Mr. Insull you wouldn...
...Securities [Exchange] Act is a matter of grave concern to every owner of real estate or securities, to all officials of corporations or banks. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that very few of your friends or clients can afford to disregard this new menace to national recovery. . . . Please discuss it with others and urge them to acquaint themselves with some of these vicious provisions...