Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During many years of close association with Douglas MacArthur, I have never heard him discuss politics or indicate any political ambition. I have not the slightest idea whether or not he has any taste for service to his country other than as a military commander. I do know that he is endowed with and practices the following...
...doctor should always let his office know where to find him. His office girl should not be snippy. In talking to patients, he should not use technical language nor discuss his personal and financial affairs. At the end of every consultation he should make sure that all his patient's questions are answered...
Papers in the military law examination are returned during the week, and impromptu legal societies arose in every room to discuss the points of military law delivered by the test. At meetings of the platoons, the results were gone over thoroughly by the major and many experiments were settled...
Jamaica's Legislative Council finally met to discuss the liberalized constitution. In a "scene of greatest cordiality" it was unanimously approved. It will be at least a year before the new voting regis ter can be completed and the constitution put into operation. But if it goes into effect as approved, Jamaica will at last have full adult suffrage...
Another time, when the peace referendum issue was before Congress, May knew a direct question would net zero results (the President tries never to discuss legislation in process). She asked: "Mr. President, do you regard a peace referendum as consonant with a representative form of government?" To neither question did she get an answer. To the last she got a question: did she stay up all night thinking it up? Answered May: "I did." May Craig got into newspapering in 1923 by helping her late husband Don Craig (then Washington reporter for the old New York Herald) with a sideline...