Word: discussable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pollard, who is president of the society, will review the history of technological unemployment, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the system, and indicate the causes for the division of opinion between the economist and the laborer...
...exception. Almost any halfway decent play presented by them would be an enjoyable evening's entertainment if seen on one of the first nights. Perhaps this is why Philip Barry's present play seems so very good without having any one very outstanding quality which a reviewer could discuss with superlatives...
...your today's issue (Oct. 19) you quote an advertisement in the New York Times which announced that the services of a "former American Ambassador" (the last two words being purposely in your heavy black type) without mentioning his name could be secured by interested clubs to discuss international affairs. You then, evidently with the intention of clever ridicule (which I admit makes good reading!) emphasize that said "Ambassador" had been identified as myself, a former "U. S. Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, longtime (1907-20) Director General of the Pan American Union...
...much help for its needed funds could be obtained if I would deliver some public addresses in its favor. I replied that, while I could not appropriately do that, I would gladly contribute the proceeds of honorariums which might be received for speaking engagements which he would secure to discuss international topics. He then asked if he could endeavor to secure such engagements through special notices in the newspapers. I agreed with the provision that my name must not be used and left to him the proper wording. When I saw the advertisement, I remonstrated as he can confirm...
Railroad executives, aware that Southern and Western roads would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...