Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doihara. Assuming that Japan, if and when convinced that the Nanking Government really means to collaborate with the Japanese Empire, makes Nanking a loan, just how big a cut will the Southwest Chinese demand? Blandly General Doihara purred in reply: "Ah, that phase of the question I did not discuss...
...reduced from 65 to 39. After March 31, "dummy" will be an obsolete term, to be replaced by "declarer's partner." Furthermore, that partner will for the first time be permitted to speak up, not only to call attention to a "defender's" irregularity, but also to discuss questions of "fact or law," reply to "proper questions." Theoretically, the new rules make possible a bid of eight: when a player makes an insufficient bid-such as seven diamonds to overcall seven hearts-his opponents may insist that he make his bid sufficient for the overcall...
...While floor brokers amused themselves with a new game (see p. 68) and influential members anxiously discussed the coming elections for president, there was serious business afoot on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Summoned to attend a secret meeting of the public relations committee was Edward L. Bernays, No. 1 U. S. publicist. He had obviously been called in to discuss the vexed question of "reselling" the Stock Exchange to the public. Perhaps, newshawks reasoned, he had been hired to take over that job. When later that day the committee refused to say what had happened...
...between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation Co., was impatient to get ashore, hurry to Paris for the annual spring meeting of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference (of which he was not a member) to discuss steamship rates...
...James MacNaughton, president and general manager of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. of Michigan. Presentation was made by President Cornelius Francis Kelley of huge Anaconda Copper (no corporate kin to Calumet & Hecla) at the annual dinner of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, convened in Manhattan to discuss mines, metals, men & methods...