Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive they tend to disappear. I am not making any argument with the man who believes that 55 per cent ought to be taken away from the $1,000,000 income, or 68 per cent from a $5,000,000 income; but when it is considered that in the effort to get these amounts we are rapidly approaching the point of getting nothing at all, it is necessary to look for a more practical method. That can be done by a reduction of the high surtaxes...
Subtle imagination, clever cratory, logical debate--all are too mentally fatiguing to be really popular. This true-spirited war-cry of the Copelanders will stretch a sympathetic chord with many who are tired of facts, tired of figures, tired of argument. And intrinsically, this slogan embodies what many will at once recognize as the ideal popular platform...
...Americanizing aliens. When he granted citizenship he held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt honesty of the intellect. He was one of the Justices who dissented when the Child Labor Law was first held unconstitutional. He broke the tradition of the Supreme Court that its members should make no public speeches. When invited to speak, he said what...
...Indianapolis was marked by drama and commotion. The one matter in which the public was most interested, the question of what wage demands the bituminous miners would make, and whether they would force a strike on April 1 when their wage contract expires, was settled with nothing stronger than argument and the ballot...
Though many green bags stuffed with literature entered the room on the shoulders of the hopeful, and three men trustfully brought in printed notes, the one man who was observed to have forgotten his books was generally conceded to have had the best of the argument...