Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Reginald Barlow had just called to order a meeting of cinema stars-among them Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Claudette Colbert, Wallace Beery, Richard Barthelmess-to discuss a prospective 50% pay cut . "If this is an earthquake," said he, "I need not remind you that the safest place to be is where...
Proud as Punch of his double victory, Premier Daladier announced that he would go to London March 15 "to discuss war debts and other major international problems" with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. After that it will be necessary to make an end of hand-to-mouth financing and really balance France's budget...
...speak on "The Banking Crisis and What Next" at a mass meeting to be held this evening by the Harvard Inquiry at 7.30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. He will take up the recent history of American banking in its relation to the national bank holiday, discuss the proposed emergency measures, and examine the case for inflation, which he, in company with many other economists, favors, provided always that it be limited...
...Henry Morgenthau Jr., James Michael Curley, Howard Bruce, Homer Cummings, Clark Howell, John Cohen were some of the names the President-elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium (see p. 18). And on his heels entered Daniel Calhoun Roper, new Secretary of Commerce, with fresh plans for wringing larger savings out of government reorganization. Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt attended a farewell party at nearby Staatsburg where old friends were...
...complete breakdown of the American school system" is no new thing for pedagogs to discuss. Last week, as 6,000-odd members of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association gathered in Minneapolis for their 63rd annual convention, they stirred themselves once more to "avert this disaster." They were more anxious than ever before. It no longer seemed sufficient simply to cry: "Save the schools! Save the innocent children!" An emergency commission reported, first thing, that while public school enrolment had increased nearly a million since 1930, the number of teachers had decreased 15,000; the amount...