Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores of subjects left which the Conference could discuss. The Frenchman admitted that there were. Japan's frail old Viscount Ishii voiced his shrill support of Mr. Hull. Premier Bennett declared that the Conference had only scratched the surface of its tasks. Grudgingly, after three hours of debate, the Conference Bureau (steering committee) instructed all subcommittees to report...
Before the ghastly mistake of 1914-1918 men knew their brothers in other countries almost as well as they do today. There were exchange professors, grants for study abroad, Olympic games since 1896, and gatherings of savants, clerymen, laity, and diplomats to discuss concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed...
...persist in turning down the overtures of the powers who will not discuss anything else until the monetary question is settled, we will undoubtedly win our somewhat obscure end, but it will mean forfeiting time that could be employed in the discussion of vital issues like tariff barriers and risking an isolated trade position...
...promise. ______∙______ Scheduled to address Stanford and Harvard alumni in San Francisco, Stanford Business School's Dean Jacob Hugh Jackson did not appear. Four members of his faculty arrived with apologetic explanations. Dean Jackson had been invited that evening to "bring 25 or 30 students with him to discuss international affairs and economics" at the Palo Alto home of Herbert Hoover...
...citizens have already had opportunity to see most of the chief delegates. One by one they have come to Washington on the invitation of President Roosevelt to discuss their problems, pose for a ritual photograph in the White House portico while the Roosevelt smile grew progressively fainter...