Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having tried the Mt. Clemens Pottery case from the time it started, through the U.S. Supreme Court, I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the implications you ascribe to the case in your issue of Dec. 16. Commentators have called it the most important case ever decided by an American court, and you suggest that it may subject individual corporations to liability exceeding...
...Foreign Ministers the going got sticky again. Byrnes asked Molotov, who likes a little bullbatting himself, up to his room in the Waldorf-Astoria. Informally, the two began to make progress. When the formal sessions ended, Byrnes had a deal on Trieste, Molotov had agreed to discuss treaties with Germany and Austria, and the U.S. resolution on disarmament had passed the U.N. Assembly...
During the decade when the U.S. moved to a pre-eminent position in world affairs, community-minded Cleveland began to discuss foreign relations as avidly as it had discussed neighborhood playgrounds, transit regulations and bond issues...
While Frank Capra was still wearing Signal Corps eagles, he began to discuss independent production with Samuel J. Briskin, onetime vice president of RKO and Columbia. Early in 1945, Liberty Films was incorporated. Briskin took on the job of executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make...
...Woman. Last fortnight members of the Michigan Society of Neurology and Psychiatry gathered to discuss the case, saw an amazing transformation. Neat and demure, the patient answered the psychiatrists' questions politely. She remembered her lurid past, but wanted to forget it. Said she: "I want to go home and lead a normal life." The hospital's report: "The patient is quite friendly, cooperative, seriously interested in the future, somewhat lacking in initiative but adequately responsive when approached. . . . Previous aggressive sexuality has apparently vanished...