Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main speech on the program, A. S. Dewing '02, professor of Finance, will discuss the Balkan situation. Professor Dewing ha been traveling abroad and making a study of the Balkan question...
...writers on science approach the authority and lucid readableness of England's Bertrand Russell and John William Navin Sullivan. Laymen curious about what science is up to can turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits...
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, having attended the birth of a son to her daughter (Princess Ileana) and Archduke Anton of Habsburg, was ready to leave Vienna for Carlsbad to discuss christening arrangements with Alfonso & Victoria of Spain. She suggested that her son-in-law Anton, able aviator, fly her there. The Archduke was in no mood to leave his wife and six-day-old son. But Mother-in-law Marie would entrust her life to no other pilot. Archduke Anton gave in, was further vexed by delay when his sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, lost...
Tied to the U. S. acceptance of this bid was a string: the conference must not discuss Reparations, War Debts or specific tariffs. Left open for debate were such matters as silver (but not its remonetization), trade barriers, embargoes, import and export quotas, international credit and tariff policies. The practical, though remote purpose of the conference was, somehow to set world trade going again...
President Hoover wants to keep Reparations and War Debts out of the national campaign, hence opposes their discussion at any economic conference before Nov. 8. Rarely in step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement...