Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of the League of Nations are as well pleased as anyone. They exult that agreement has been reached in a major international crisis through the intervention of the Council at Geneva. This argument will doubtless be accepted in the foreign offices and will add immeasurably to the weakened prestige of that body. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that formulas and agreements in principle are as old as modern diplomacy. Throughout the nineteenth century crises of just this sort were smoothed over by just this sort of nobly ambiguous declaration. A common meeting ground for the plentipotentiaries in League headquarters...
...argument which ensued among some of the visitors and which became serious when three factions appeared was concerned with the relative merits of the picture in the various possible positions...
...argument which ensued among some of the visitors and which became serious when three factions appeared was concerned with the relative merits of the picture in the various possible positions...
...always bigger than its business. Even before the profitless little company was recapitalized two years ago, a fight developed between its stockholders and its management. The stockholders blamed the management for Kelly-Springfield's troubles. The management blamed Depression. A third group, the noteholders, stayed out of the argument until last week. Then, fearful lest the company's large annual loss make it impossible for them to collect anything, the noteholders applied to a Jersey City court for the appointment of a receiver...
...write a literary history of his contemporaries than Critic-Editor Frank Swinnerton. His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians (Henry James to T. S. Eliot) will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers; it does not pretend to be the last word in a never-ending critical argument...