Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hastened over to call on M. Clemenceau. To my mind he was the greatest of French civil officials. . . . When we met he was much affected and indeed demonstrative. We fell into each other's arms, choked up and had to wipe our eyes. We had no differences to discuss that...
Detroit has presented routine operas so successfully that Pittsburgh, Columbus, Buffalo, Dayton and New Orleans have become interested in its formula. Committees from each of these cities were scheduled to meet in Detroit at the end of the two-week season, to discuss the plan of a National Civic Opera Company. Principals and scenery could be passed on from place to place, each city providing its own orchestra and enthusiastic amateur chorus...
Next week at Atlantic City will convene the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss the state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement. This meeting Michigan's millionaire Senator Couzens last week viewed with loud alarm. In a sarcastic statement he declared that the business men meeting in the "Rose Rooms" or the "Pompeian Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs...
...openly dispensed.' Am I to understand that the fact that at present liquor is being secretly dispensed the length and breadth of the country is a matter of indifference to you? I cannot help but be amused by your other state- ments. . . . Why is it that Prohibitionists refuse to discuss conditions as they are today...
...present the "minister without a pulpit", as he is known, is regional director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which he represented in the recent textile strike at Lawrence. He has made a through study of the attempts of the working class to express itself, and will discuss the various aspects of the Lawrence strike in relation to his study...