Word: threshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk...
...face by preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees...
...Pope's authority and believe broadly in the same dogmas were the other Orthodox Churches of Europe and Asia Minor. Rumania, with 11,000,000 Orthodox, has the largest and most influential church. To Bucharest two summers ago were invited a party of Anglican bishops and theologians, to thresh out theological problems with the Rumanians. After agreeing that Anglican orders are valid, the Rumanian Orthodox requested the Church of England formally to declare its desire for intercommunion...
...reclaimed Pontine Marshes about 50 miles south of Rome, a district infested for centuries with malaria but now ditched, drained, booming and blooming. Arriving at a Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...
Leather. Meanwhile most solvent corporations will continue to thresh out recapitalization plans with security holders and creditors outside the courts. Two notable companies which have completed this process are Wilson & Co. and Armour & Co. One still in the throes of reorganization without recourse to Section 77b last week was American Hide & Leather...