Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this disinterested vantage point, Mr. Wolff has surveyed the tutoring problem. Lifting from these columns the chief evils of tutoring, he has numbered them! (1) writing papers; (2) spotting examinations; (3) discovering snap courses; (4) conducting mass cram sessions. Yet Mr. Wolff is loath to discuss these ills. In the first place, he thinks they may be unethical; in the second place, they are not practiced by his establishment, "as far as I know," he says...
...chief purpose of the author is to describe and discuss the function of the magazine as a medium or a genuinely democratic literature and as an immediate expression of the interests of the nation, its politics, amusements, fashions, rages and crazes, economics and education...
...State Department was at the pier in Manhattan to meet square-chinned Chief Constable Albert Canning of what is properly called the Criminal Investigation Department. He is its first chief to have risen from the ranks. C. I. D.'s Canning proceeded inconspicuously to Washington to discuss with the Secret Service plans for the safety of George VI & Queen Elizabeth on an itinerary of some 1,500 miles with many ticklish spots...
...committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
...committal as to his present political inclinations, Lewis said, "Too many people discuss politics who don't know what they're talking about. But I do like LaGuardia's Fusion Party administration in New York...