Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week in Washington a worried little group of Britons and Canadians sat down to discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another...
Like all jurors, Janney had been instructed not to discuss the trial with anyone. But by shrewd prodding, Carol had apparently gotten Janney to do some talking. With carefully culled excerpts from her conversations with him, as verified only by Carol, the defense tried to prove that Janney was emphatically prejudiced ("Those goddam Communists-If anyone ever mentions Marxism-Leninism to me, I'll knock his block off"). They contended he was determined to find the defendants guilty ("Whatever the verdict is, it will be appealed and appealed...
They contended that the union should not even be allowed to discuss pensions at this time: the contract permitted negotiations to be opened only on wages, and pensions were not wages. (The union countered with a recent federal court decision holding that pensions could be considered part of wages.) As for wages, said...
This week Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from her silence. She would not "discuss this question any further on a personal basis with Cardinal Spellman," she wrote in "My Day." She pointed out that she had supported Alfred Smith, a Roman Catholic, in every campaign that he made. "I have no ill feeling toward any religion or toward any people of high or low estate because they belong to any religious group. I am sure the Cardinal has written in what to him seems a Christian and kindly manner and I wish to do the same...
...policymakers were known to be worrying, somewhat belatedly, over the Communist advance in Asia; but even after weeks of behind-the-scenes study and discussion no new program had emerged. The immediate question was whether to extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist-dominated government now being formed in China. Washington tended to discuss this in terms of procedural technicalities. Actually, the arguments pro & con would be meaningless until a broad political policy was decided upon...