Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never told anyone, as your magazine stated, that I hoped General MacArthur would run for President. Nor did I discuss any political matters with the general while in New York or while in Texas. The fact of the matter is I have a great hope that we will have peace and that I will have an opportunity to work and vote for General Ike Eisenhower for President; for it is my belief that he has the respect of nearly all of our citizens in both the Democratic and Republican parties...
...kept officially silent about the Red proposals, but in an unguarded moment, Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke implied that the U.N. had refused at the first meeting to discuss withdrawal of troops from Korea. Reason: that is a political matter, and the discussions are limited to military matters leading only to an armistice. Meanwhile, the U.N. is on record with its minimum truce conditions...
Next week at the same time Hans Kohn, professor of History at the City College of New York, will discuss problems of American foreign policy in what he terms "the age of fear...
...illegal trade has reached such alarming proportions that U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy came home last month to report to Washington and discuss more stringent countermeasures. McCloy was sure that most of the smuggling and tricks for getting around the trade bans were the work of professional operators financed by "Communist agents who are throwing a good bit of gold around." Most formidable of all the professionals are Ernst Wollweber and the trained, dedicated underground men of his apparatus...
Judge Learned Hand, recently retired after 42 years on the federal bench in New York, turned up before a Senate subcommittee to discuss ethics in Government. Did he not think the moral standards of the country were lower now than in the days of Thomas Jefferson? No, said the judge, he did not. Even in the face of the recent gambling, basketball and narcotics evidence? Perhaps, Judge Hand concluded, it seemed so because the prizes of immorality had increased...