Word: talk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson was quick to quash this League talk. "American participation in the Five Power Disarmament Conference," he wrote, "will be separate, distinct, and apart from the League of Nations...
Best argument for a pool wishing to move a stock up is talk of "secret processes and patents." Last February the International Combustion Engineering Corp., world's leading manufacturer of boilers, automatic stokers, ash handlers and power plant devices, opened a new plant at New Brunswick, N. J. Function of this plant was to use a newly acquired foreign patent for the distillation of coal, rendering from the fuel valuable gas byproducts, light oil, and a powdered semi-coke for use in steam power plants...
...present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting Federal investigation. They also made the conciliatory gesture of inviting a committee of the Newsprint Institute of Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further, the price would be raised to $60 per ton with a $5 reduction for the first six months on three-year contracts...
...hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger members. Herbert J. Biberman, onetime Guild stage manager and product of Professor George Pierce Baker's Yale School...
...that pictures should be seen in incidental surroundings, not in the vaultlike rooms of great museums. His collection is open to all visitors, but Mr. Phillips does not want it to be a rubberneckers' haunt. Unlike most collectors, he gives no extemporaneous lectures to casual visitors but will talk privately to the interested...