Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, last week, two famed Democratic Governors met for the first time, discussed dentists, avoided politics. Governor Moody was in Manhattan as the head of a Goodwill Delegation of some 125 Texans, touring the North and East, proving that the modern Texan costume includes no six-shooter, preaching the doctrine of economic interdependence among 48 states. The trip had been designed on a strictly non-political basis, Governor Moody having repeatedly refused to discuss either "politics or personalities." He did say, however, that in Texas the Ku Klux Klan is "as dead as the proverbial doornail...
...matters that these four international bankers will discuss were, of course, unknown to newsgatherers last week. Because the four are exceedingly busy men the presumption was that they had a fixed program for discussion. That was not necessarily the case. They are, as heads of most potent banks, interested in the current situation of world business and finance. Knowing the routes of commerce is of no less importance to them than is the neighborhood route to the morning's milkman. And the best way to learn, they have wisely decided, is viva voce, by friendly conversations...
...also think it would be desirable to discuss the possibility of limiting the number of submarines according to our varying requirements, and it must be borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
...conclusion let me sound an optimistic note. My contact with the coming generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code...
...promptly declared: "No statement as to the details of the new cars has been made by the Ford Motor Co. As a matter of actual fact, the specifications for the new models are not yet complete and it would be impossible for anyone, even in the Ford organization, to discuss them with accuracy and with authority...