Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Darrow then began his long argument for the defense, basing it on the diversion of the caption of the act from the act itself and on the ambiguity of the indictment. "I am going to argue it [the case] as if it was serious. . . . The Book of Genesis, written when everybody thought the world was flat . . . religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book...
...Incidentally, the remark also has been made during the debate that no fortifications are being built at strategic points along the 3,000 miles of the Canadian-American frontier, and this is used as an argument against the Singapore base...
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, and Knight errant for reform in the rules of the Senate, traveled into the fastnesses of New Hampshire, home of Senator George Higgins Moses, protagonist of the Senate rules as they are. At Manchester, he jousted in the lists, setting forth his arguments, many of which were rebuttals to his opponents' replies. This was the substance of his argument tor a strict cloture (closure) rule-i.e., a rule that would enable the Senate to stop debate in order to secure a prompt vote...
...Admitting, for the sake of argument, that Fall suggested full development of the reserve by lease and the exchange of oil for fuel oil in storage, and Denby adopted the suggestion and executed the lease after mature consideration, as the evidence shows he did, to hold that it was not Denby's official act is, it seems to us, little short of branding him as an imbecile...
...reserve oil leases, the Government got its first material satisfaction. Last week, the first of the suits instituted because of those disclosures was decided-decided not finally, but at least in the Government's favor. Judge McCormick of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, who heard the argument in the case last October and November, read the decision...