Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
...defined academic freedom as the right of a scholar to seek the truth, discuss his subject, and offer conclusions through publication and classroom instruction. It also asserted that membership per so in any, political or religious group or adherence to any philosophical, political, or religious belief does not necessarily constitute grounds for dismissal or failure to rehire...
...Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
...delegates got some evil-smelling doses to swallow. Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison had sent up from London a cabinet decision that manual workers in nationalized industries for a period of two years must not even discuss pension plans with the nationalized boards running their industries. Said a Durham miners' leader: "Mind you, it's not that we trade unionists want to force the government into doing something the nationalized industries can't afford. We'd be perfectly willing to hold an inquiry on the point. But we're not going...
...nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who asked St. Laurent to come to Ottawa to discuss "an urgent matter." Next day, St. Laurent was asked to join the cabinet as Minister of Justice...