Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...
...White House breakfast last week went the Navy's general board to discuss tonnage reduction with the President. Grizzled old officers were assured that their opinions would not be ignored. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who had interrupted his summer yachting to be present, went back to the State Department to call Ambassador Dawes in London on the trans-Atlantic telephone, to appraise him of what the White House had discussed...
...national differences can be settled otherwise than by appeal to arms." England's Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaper bigwig, gave it a seat when he said: "Who of us sitting here today would twelve years ago have predicted that Americans, Frenchmen and Englishmen would meet in Berlin to discuss advertising methods?" France's Dr. Marcel Knecht, secretary of Le Matin, gave it a place on the platform when he spoke on "Advertising and World Peace," suggested that if ever a United States of Europe should be formed, it would be to collaborate with the U. S. A., with...
...Ordinarily I pay no attention to campaign canards. . . . In the interest of truth I am compelled to deny that I ever urged or suggested that Mrs. Willebrandt discuss any man's religion . . . nor did I ever insert any religious comment in any speech she ever made, nor was any manuscript of hers containing any attack on any man's religion or raising the religious issue ever submitted to or scrutinized by me, nor did any manuscript of her Springfield speech which came to headquarters contain any such expression as 'Go back to your pulpits and preach this...
Federal Reserve. Last February the Federal Reserve Board harassed the market by convening every Thursday to discuss a raise in the rediscount rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to accommodate commerce and business, it is its duty . . . to take measures to correct them; which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when...