Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the committee room marched a clownish young man named William N. McNair, a Democrat but no New Dealer, who loudly announced: "Well. I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I've come down to discuss the tax bill as it affects our city. You've taken a lot of money out of Pittsburgh. This bill has a new name, but it means that more money is coming to Washington from Pittsburgh than came before. . . . You already take $100,000,000 a year from our city. If you pass this law, a lot more money will come to Washington...
...border, the stalemate to be policed by a commission of one Briton, one Italian and one neutral. During the succeeding period of negotiation, Germany will demilitarize back from the border mile for mile with France and Belgium, will make a 25-year non-aggression pact with both, will discuss a mutual assistance pact, an air pact and non-aggression pacts with Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Austria...
Primary object of the Power Conferences is to discuss the problems relating to the sources and utilization of power throughout the world...
...December, 1933 President Roosevelt invoked the policy of the "good neighbor", opposed to armed intervention. This was followed by the abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt...
...farm at East Garston in Berkshire, in rebuilding which he hired only local people, becoming the village's chief support and eventually Master of Foxhounds of its swank Craven Hunt and president of the Hungerford Fat Stock Show. In neither of these squirely retreats did he discuss his third life as a concession-wangler among Eastern potentates whose Oriental courage and vanity genuinely attract him and whom he, like the late great T. E. Lawrence, genuinely impresses...