Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League will discuss current political policies, publish their arguments and exclusions in a bulletin, and sponsor public forums on current conservative policy...
This was Washington's biggest international meeting since the 1921 Disarmament Conference. Some enthusiastic commentators described it as the most impor tant meeting since Versailles. But by its own definition the conference was merely exploratory, on a technical level. The conference will not discuss the heart of all the problems of postwar peace - what to do with Germany and Japan. Nor will the conferees ever discuss the countless important subsidiary questions, such as the problem of boundaries...
...quickly killed a report that he planned to discuss foreign policy with Wendell Willkie. (Willkie received a White House invitation to such a meeting shortly after the President left Washington in July.) Franklin Roosevelt tartly said this was one of those "New York stories." But would the President like to talk to Mr. Willkie? That, he said, is a personal matter, an entirely personal matter. But he did plan to see Winston Churchill again. And soon. He smiled and spelled out soon. A reporter asked him about the biggest dope-story of the week: that he favored compulsory peacetime conscription...
...President, I go further than Bermuda. I think we ought to take Bimini and Nassau, only about 50 miles off the coast of Florida. ... We should not only take the islands which belong to the British there, but we should discuss the appraised value of those islands and deduct their value from what Great Britain owes us as a result of World War I and World...
Late one afternoon last week Republican bigwigs began arriving on the veranda of the Governor's antiquated Albany mansion to discuss an important question with Tom Dewey: Who should be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat of famed New Dealer Robert Wagner? But Tom Dewey had an answer ready. By the Governor's usual bedtime the conferences were over and the opposition candidates resigned to the inevitable. Next day, before lunch, the Governor's candidate was nominated...