Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only attempting to build a colossal Jacksonian political machine, but it is also trying to break down completely the histrionic separation of powers in the federal system. Demolishing state lines ruthlessly, gathering the reins of government into the hands of the White House, it has used the argument of national crisis to justify its concentration of powers in the hands of the executive...
Churchmen and laymen had heard him read a minority report, launch into an impassioned argument. Suddenly, when another delegate interrupted on a point of order, they beheld the lawyer falter. Quick tears came to his eyes. His knuckles grew white clenching the rostrum. While the Deputies hushed, he fought to control himself, finally spoke in a low, choked voice: "I find it impossible to finish what I was going to say. This means so much...
...fact that only a small minority of America's annual graduating classes of more than 200,000 is fitted for any profession or occupation, precludes any logical argument against Professor Ulich's conclusion. Thousands of actual cases can be found throughout America where college men without any specialized training, are either on the unemployed docket or working at posts requiring but a grammar-school education. In contrast to the medieval university that offered the few scholars enlightenment in the sciences and arts, the modern university seems, in many cases, to be the seat of a social sphere and a superficial...
Author Russell, who has always held aloof from the political arena, takes a longer, more objective view of the argument than either Secretary Wallace or Mr. Hoover. A radical, he is also a scientist and a philosopher. To get a proper perspective of the debate between freedom and organization, he goes back 100 years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many...
...that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon its wings taints of crime and vice, to reek and stink, and stink and reek upon our Southern plains." In 1830 the argument between Massachusetts and South Carolina in the U. S. Senate was still parliamentary, but by 1856 it had descended to murderous fisticuffs...