Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motormakers last week had another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like...
...ports. Last week it was announced in Ottawa that since May the Canadian Treasury has lost $15,000,000 in liquor revenue taxes, directly as agreement." a As one result of this gentleman to "gentlemen's another, President Hoover and Prime Minister Bennett may well mention liquor, must discuss the possibility of a U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat, will probably announce that they are talking about "the St. Lawrence waterway project." Indeed that stale red herring was vigorously bran dished in Government House at Ottawa to account for the Bennett visit. In Ottawa's Liberal Evening Citizen...
India has been going these many months on the theory that to demonstrate in favor of Nationalism, or even to be a member of the Working Committee of the Nationalist Congress, was a crime. But today the British Government wants India's Nationalist leaders to read, discuss among themselves and accept the plan for "reserved Dominion Status" drafted in London by the Indian Round Table Conference (TIME, Jan. 26). In jail they could read, but not discuss. Therefore, last week, the Viceroy decreed that what had been crimes the day before were no longer crimes, ordered the "unconditional release...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will meet at Poland Springs, Maine, on Friday, February 27, Saturday, February 28, and Sunday, March 1. The convention, called the Poland Springs Conference, is to be composed of representatives from men and women students in Greater Boston, and from northeastern New England, and will discuss the general subject of "Political Corruption...
...began the interview with come remarks concerning his days at Yale when he and Peter Arno were to other there in the same class. But the rend of the conversation soon turned to his relations with his large public about which he talked with extreme frankness. He refused to discuss what he thought to be the secret of his popularity on the grounds that he felt that as an artist he should not discuss that side of his personality. He added that he spoke very openly on that subject in his "Vagabond Dreams Come True", a work from...