Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensation of the year was being grossly underpaid. He instructed Fox that, despite a five-year contract, Shirley Temple would not start work on her new picture, Angel Face, for less than $2,500 a week. Fox countered with an offer of $1,000. Mr. Temple said he would discuss the matter with his lawyer...
Scarcely had Senator Thomas' message been digested by U. S. newsreaders when Governor Harrison shot back a denial, declaring that he was in Europe solely to discuss economic conditions, not to make "any arrangement about anything." Acting Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Jefferson Coolidge corroborated this statement by declaring that Governor Harrison was certainly not representing the U. S. Treasury. Everyone knew that Governor Harrison had no authority to stabilize the dollar even if he wanted to. But such denials mean little to political inflationists. Senator Thomas promptly had his office in Washington give out the text of a letter...
There was not a single private railroad car in the yards of the Pennsylvania or Central of New Jersey at Atlantic City last week when the topnotch executives of every important Class I road in the land gathered to discuss the financial destiny of their industry...
...Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money from the public...
...spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi's dream. And last week the King of Kings had left Persia for the first time since he seized the Peacock Throne in 1925 to discuss both Moslem dreams and realities with his Turkish neighbors...