Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strong evidence is given for the economic argument for migration by the fact that the period of migration is chiefly between November and July, when immigration from abroad is at its lowest. (See page 4.) Then the labor demand in the North is most keen and Negroes are most strongly attracted by good wages...
Dutch Imperialists profess alarm at the new British naval base at Singapore, advancing the extraordinary theory that this base is directed primarily against the Dutch colonies. More likely this argument is used because the Navy chiefs are determined on a big Navy and will find reasons for such a Navy after it has been established...
...Haldeman-Julius contributed an article on Culture and the Workers in which he declared that taste does not follow class distinctions. He based his argument on the popularity of his " Pocket Series " of books, chiefly reprints of literary classics. Mr. Haldeman-Julius has sold over 30,000,000 of these in three years.* The best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during...
...appeal to the British Privy Council. Because the United States was the appellant, the bar of England suspended all rules governing admission in order that James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., might appear before the highest tribunal of the British Empire. Mr. Beck's argument was the first ever presented by a foreigner to the Privy Council. The claim was allowed...
...camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained for exhibition. It was argued that nothing was imported except rays of light, but the Federal Courts made short work of the argument...