Word: discussable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Matthay, but many have cause to thank him. Lank, long-jawed, white-maned "Uncle Tobs" is the man who took the drudgery out of piano lessons. He now lives in the English countryside, nearing 84. In Manhattan last week 50 teacher-members of the American Matthay Association met to discuss Matthay-style teaching...
...recently General George C. Marshall, Army chief, and Admiral Harold R. Stark, Navy chief, entered the White House, went in to see the President. They had a most urgent matter to discuss, said they. The President was all ears. No, insisted the commanders, Harry Hopkins must be present to hear it. Hopkins was summoned. When he was seated, Chiefs Stark and Marshall turned to the President and said in chorus: "Hopkins must...
...three points, they reported, on which all hands would agree: 1) no strikes or lockouts for the duration; 2) settlement of all disputes through step-by-step conciliation, mediation, arbitration; 3) creation of a War Labor Board to handle the disputes. But management wanted a fourth point: no further discussion of the closed shop until the war 'is over. Labor wanted to discuss nothing else...
...photographs of troops, their identity, location, number, individual names was forbidden except with official sanction. The Navy next issued a strong warning "To the Public" with subheads reading: THIS IS A MODERN WAR-THIS IS A TOTAL WAR-THIS IS A HARSH WAR. It warned citizens not to discuss ships, sailors, weapons, casualties, ship damage or defense production. Still more drastically, Army and Navy on the West Coast began censoring domestic telegrams and examining air express...
...greatest bastion of all is the fortress of the British Isles, and there were suggestions that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion...