Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such methods as those to which Mr. Cohen has stooped are cheap, idle and ineffectual. They are unbecoming enough to anyone in political argument but especially so in his case; as publicity manager of the "Harvard Thomas-for-President Club" he can ill-afford with his meager following of a hundred, to give the impression that his party sanctions the use of such weapons...
...opinion intelligent people will turn more and more to Smith between now and election day. The only Republican argument cutting much ice is the old prosperity one, which makes little appeal to educated people. They know that prosperity is due not to the federal administration, but to the development of natural resources in business, stimulated in America by conditions in Europe. The quantity of free capital in America is due to the same cause and the fact that quantity production has been greatly perfected during the last decade...
Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...
...necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives and short tempers...