Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...
...last week the Silver bloc's high hopes to put this deal over ran into a snag. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee reported favorably on the bloc's plan. But the House balked, indicated that it would discuss 90-cent but not $1.29 silver. Miffed, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, bloc leader, claimed he would settle for no less...
...Chicago conference which Waite attended was an assembly of college administrative officers and foreign students' advisors called by the Institute of International Education at the request of the State Department to discuss the foreign student situation in general and its relation to American universities...
...Austria was still a shattered monument to the breakdown of Big Three cooperation. In Paris, Jimmy Byrnes, as a key point in the new U.S. positive policy, tried to begin redemption of the pledge. Curtly, Molotov told Byraes that Austria was not on the agenda and refused even to discuss putting it there...
Byrnes at Paris made two proposals on Austria. Would Russia agree that each of the four powers reduce their occupying troops to 15,000 each? (Russia has about 150,000 and Britain, France and the U.S. together have about 50,000 in Austria.) Molotov would not discuss it, although not even Molotov would contend that Austria threatened anyone's security. Byrnes then circulated a treaty guaranteeing Austria's independence, territorial integrity, democratic government and free trade with the rest of the world. Molotov would not discuss that either...