Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Clevelanders were there, too-198 representatives of the Council's forums in 22 Cleveland secondary schools. They came-armed with research, arguments and ideas-to discuss current affairs at three special sessions with three TiMEmen (Foreign Editor Max Ways, Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, Berlin Bureau Chief John Scott). Later, they were to report back to their student assemblies on what had been said. Ways, Elson and Scott, who got a Grade-A goingover, found them a highly informed and knowledgeable audience...
...Heaven Either. Off the floor the Congressmen also labored. House committees, finally organized under predominantly conservative G.O.P. leadership, gathered in committee rooms to discuss legislation. Ways & Means, under Minnesota's Harold Knutson, whipped out a bill to continue indefinitely the $1.2 billion excise taxes, terminated as of July by President Truman's proclamation of the end of hostilities (TIME...
Gusev munched on each procedural point with his usual grim relish. But he went along with the U.S.-British idea that a central German government should be created to receive the peace terms, and dropped his dilatory demand to discuss Austria only after the German peace was settled; henceforth, the fate of Austria would be taken up in the mornings, that of Germany in the afternoons...
...Publishers. "The danger is that . . . practically all the magazines on the stands will either not discuss [public] issues at all, or will do it with blinders on-each magazine expressing its own special view, whatever this may be, and not acquainting its readers with any other views . . . the traffic in fresh ideas has therefore been dependent largely upon a handful of magazines which were liberal in the best sense -by which I mean that they assumed that there might be more than one side to a question, that new ideas were not necessarily poisonous, and that open-mindedness...
...manage college football had met in Manhattan earlier in the month. Like statesmen arguing for disarmament, each of them was all for amateurism, in football, but didn't want to be the first: to try it. One who could discuss the matter with authority was Notre Dame's president, Father John J. Cavanaugh. Said he last week: "I suspect the reformers protest too much. . . . We at Notre Dame make no apologies about wanting winners...