Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another White House proclamation: Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10). ¶ To his Rapidan camp the President took for a week-end outing Publishers Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement long enough to discuss arms limitation with Assistant Secretary of State Rogers, anti-trust laws with Assistant Attorney General O'Brian. In circulation last week was a pamphlet published by the Virginia State Commission on Conservation & Development, handsomely printed, with maps, by Edward L. Stone of Roanoke and called "The President...
Alarmed at this casualty among the Brotherhood, last week customers' men were prone to talk less loudly. In many offices there is a rule that to discuss the condition of a house or bank with anyone is an offense which may result in dismissal. Yet few clerks or bank presidents are able to contain themselves when they hear rumors of inbound catastrophe...
...consider negotiations whereby Nanking would buy on long-term credit some wheat to relieve Yangtze flood victims (see p. 18). In less than three days the Farm Board responded that it would be delighted to sell to China. Then it waited for the Nationalist Government to make a bid, discuss price and credit terms, show what it would use for money...
Less reluctant to discuss moral questions in his new home than he had been in California, Bishop Gorman commented, after a tour of the town: "Before we can save the world, we must save ourselves. No crusades are intended...
...working intensively on Man's Own Show for four years, implies that overwork hastened his end. If Scientist Dorsey's excitement over Why We Behave Like Human Beings excited you, you will probably want to read his hard-wrought magnum opus. Says Dorsey: "I have attempted to . . . discuss human beings and civilization as objectively as though I were neither human nor civilized, but nevertheless had retained my human right to be curious about everything, my acquired interest in anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about anything I am taxed to support...