Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently he went on to discuss minimum wages and hours of Labor. He recited from memory the text of a note which he had sent the late Gus Gennerich to get from a weeping girl who stood beside the line of march on his triumphant tour of New England before election: "Dear Mr. President...
...informal debate they will discuss what they see and hope to see for 1937. as well as the implications of President Roosevelt's address, and will consider legislation pending in Congress. Mr. Bliven has been in newspaper work since his graduation from Stanford in 1911 and in addition to his work on the New Republic is American correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. Mr. Chase has been connected with the Federal Trade Commission and is the author of many books on Economics...
Heading Volume XX was a four-page biography of the New York Times's late, great Publisher Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935), written by onetime Timesman Elmer Davis. It was Publisher Ochs who made the Dictionary possible. When the American Council of Learned Societies met in 1924 to discuss a U. S. counterpart of Sidney Lee's great British Dictionary of National Biography, there was not $500 in the treasury to pay the officers' traveling expenses. Approached by his scholarly editorial writer, Dr. John H. Finley, Publisher Ochs promised that the Times would...
Flushed, Chairman Wilkie began: "I am now free . . . to discuss with you in open meeting the question of whether or not Dr. Frank . . . should be reappointed for the year 1937-38." Stolidly Mr. Wilkie described how he had told Governor La Follette that a "change would have to be made in the presidency." Regent John P. Callahan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Regent Daniel Grady a Portage lawyer, Chairman Wilkie said agreed with him. The three had "conferred" with Governor La Follette. Regent Callahan volunteered to break the news to Dr. Frank. From that time, Chairman Wilkie complained, President...
Said Mr. Ball gently: "I would be very glad to discuss that proposition with you." The audience guffawed and Senator Wheeler, whose bias is for government ownership, winced...