Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them; but 2) France would not "cede a foot of our land nor one of our rights." Such words, said President Lebrun, were "calm, firm, loyal, courageous, and human." This week, for the first time in months, those adjectives applied...
Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
After stifling under a pall of rank smoke for three weeks, officials of a dozen east coast Florida cities met last week in Fort Lauderdale to discuss what they could do about a major catastrophe. Fires-some of them presumably started by alligator hunters burning grass around their quarry's wallow-had swept more than 1,000,000 acres east and south of Lake Okeechobee. The burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass...
...Members of the House Committee will be available during these hours to talk informally with candidates who may wish to discuss general House activities...
...hinted last week when the Hungarian Foreign Minister was one of the small and distinguished party-including the Japanese and Italian Ambassadors-which shared Herr Hitler's triumphant arrival in Berlin (see col.3). Nicholas Horthy, Hungary's Regent, was scheduled to meet Fuhrer Hitler soon to discuss "common problems," and speculators wondered whether His Serene Highness might not find it expedient to deliver his country into the trust of Adolf Hitler, just as President Emil Hacha of Czechoslovakia did last week...