Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plumpish Dr. George Wehnes Calver, official attending physician to the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, talked very small last week. Friends in both chambers spoke to him affectionately: "It is a low-down mean shame. . . ." But Dr. Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws...
...course there are both girls and boys in our organization," she laughed. "If you are thinking of becoming a member we will give you a program of education. After visiting hospitals and courts. We discuss in forums alcoholic on the system. Thus you get all the data which you need to make up your mind. After you have joined, you become allied with a competing post which provides the entertainment and spreads the truth about liquor. It is a grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer...
...author of the editorial "Off The Track," also with the interests of the NSL at heart, has made two suggestions for its improvement" (1) that it hold regular meetings to discuss problems and tactics; (2) that it cease such "publicity seeking" exploits and Philbrick's. As one who has followed the activities of the NSI, since its foundation with a good deal of interest, let me say that (1) the NSI, has hold small membership meetings every week for the purpose of studying current problems. These meetings were characterized throughout by sincerity and seriousness. (2) The Editor of The CRIMSON...
...constant swords' points, the Polish corridor may inflame the Nazis, France may quiver at her lack of "security" from another northern invasion--but the lion and the lamb never lie down together with more good followship than these French, German, Czech, and Polish gentlemen when they come together to discuss, as follow directors, the problems of increasing Europe's consumption of armaments. Thanks to the activities of Skoda and its allics, arms form a full 10 per cent of all Czech exports--and 40 per cent of all Skoda's products are exported to the extent...
...emotions will not satisfy the practical minded undergraduate, and it is this support which the League should attempt to attain. The abolition of activities, such as the previously mentioned ones, would be the first step in the right direction. Those really interested should hold regular meetings and discuss among themselves the steps which are necessary to bring their purpose to fruition. Not only a sane consideration of the problems facing them now but proposals for the future when they have removed the cankers certainly supply the NSL with food for thought. It is in small meetings, away from the glare...