Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justify their position before the American people, either economically or morally. There are two factors that made President Green's letter very telling - in matters of politics if not in the Labor situation: 1) Because it is an attack on the effectiveness of high tariff, dovetailing with the argument of Democrats that the Republican high tariff does not protect even those who are supposed to be its chief beneficiaries; 2) because Republican Senator Butler of Massachusetts is prominently identified with the textile business, and the reduction of wages in the textile mills is sure to react to his disadvantage...
...Premier George followed the same line of argument, taunted the Chancellor for his "surrender of the public purse to footpad Admirals bent on holding up the Government and Parliament...
...following summary is designed to give the substance of his argument...
...Bryan had told friends it was to be his greatest speech. It was his last great argument in defense of Modernism which meets halfway with Evolution...
CAPTAINS AND KINGS-André Mauois (translated by Lewis May)-Appleon ($1.50). As one would have guessed, The French psychologist who wrote the first unprejudiced life of Shelley (Ariel*) can conduct a philosophical argument with delicacy, wit and penetration. From his interest in Shelley, one would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist...