Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bipartisan plan had been launched. But he refuted Dewey's interpretation of the plan's origins by quoting from Cordell Hull's Memoirs. They pointed out that it was Hull who had first suggested, in March 1944, the formation of a bipartisan group of Senators to discuss the framework of U.N. In August of that year Dewey had criticized the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, after which, said the Memoirs, it was Hull again who took the initiative by inviting Dewey to consultations with the State Department...
...recently as last September the Swedes were resolutely avoiding any approach whatever to the joint defense of Scandinavia. Last week, however, Sweden's Defense Minister, Allan Georg Frederik Vougt, was in Oslo, Norway's fog-shrouded capital, to discuss with his Danish and Norwegian opposite numbers the beginnings of military collaboration-standardization of arms and training. The fact that the Norwegians and, to a lesser degree, the Danes, looked on Scandinavian defense as a part of Western European defense made Sweden's presence all the more significant...
President Conant centered the majority of his talk around College affairs and Freshman problems, although he took time out to discuss the draft with brief remarks. In his main point he advised the students that in choosing professions they should be guided not so much by monetary factors as by their own natural leanings...
Charlotte Horwood '49, former head of the library committee, and Barbara Heanue '49, Senior class representative on the Council, will discuss the library situation which now focuses on the poor check-out system. Annex students take out books overnight or for two-hour periods by signing the book cards and walking off with the books...
...committee's annual report to the House for 1943 was termed by Voorhis as only the personal report of the Chairman. There was no meeting held to discuss it Voorhis said. "It was presented to members on a 'take-it-or-leave-it' basis." And every time Dies tried to grab credit for something another agency had accomplished, Voorhis protested strongly...