Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Settled Out of Court. In Fargo, N. Dak., a meeting to discuss the advisability of road improvement was postponed when delegates were kept home by muddy roads...
Situation: Precarious. The talk easily turned to politics. The President admitted that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn and New York State Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick had paid a super-secret call to discuss the New York political situation, and insisted that they had left happy. Reporters learned later that Flynn had shown the President an advance copy of a resolution he introduced at a meeting of New York's convention delegates, in which Truman's domestic policy was praised and his Palestine policy damned. The delegates themselves were uninstructed; the New York situation was unsettled at best...
...Johns Hopkins University last week the weather outside was rainy; indoors it was heavy. Some of America's highest browed literary critics had gathered to discuss just what a critic's job is. Scholars and professors from 30 colleges, professional critics and a handful of writers were there...
...organizational meeting has been called for tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Adams Upper Common Room, when students interested in drafting Eisenhower for President will congregate to hear Houghteling and several as yet unnamed members of the faculty discuss the situation...
During the week, Mora visited the Casa Presidencial to discuss strategy with Picado and Calderón, rode to La Sabana airport to inspect supplies arriving from Nicaragua, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, made speeches all over town. But each day he included a visit to the same small cottage on the edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra...