Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention and incidental sight-seeing were embarrassed by even bolder talk than usual. Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia...
...petition for a 10% rise in Pullman rates as "unreasonable," the Interstate Commerce Commission did consent to a 5% rise. This gave eastern roads new hope that ICC may look favorably on their renewed petition for higher coach passenger fares. Meanwhile last week, the railroad unions agreed to discuss the proposed 15% wage cut at a meeting July 20 and Class I roads as a group reported a net loss...
...With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women-just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific...
After listening to my "Econ" students freely discuss the New Deal for the past six years I wish to submit the essence of three schools of thought as to the meaning of the term...
...vessels would stand by to protect U. S. citizens. This week Chinese reported having bombed and sunk four vessels of the Japanese fleet just above Anking. War-weary and discouraged, the Japanese admitted: 1) they might have to defer their drive on Hankow until autumn; 2) they might even discuss terms. Said Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki: "If any serious changes should occur in the future, it may be necessary for the Japanese Government to reconsider its decision not to deal with the Chiang Kai-shek regime." Chinese Communists in Hankow exultantly issued a communique: "Who imagines that we Chinese...