Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...
...elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary drought in 40 years as an argument for abandoning the entire agricultural adjustment program. This effort to use the fact of the drought as an attack on the Agricultural Adjustment program is typical of the shortsighted leadership of the Republican Party from...
...when Sir John Simon, supporting Mr. Baldwin, drew rare cheers by this involved but venomous reference to Germany: "If His Majesty's Government are to be attacked [for our air program], if our critics are to be answered, let us do it in the good old-fashioned way, by argument and vote, and let us utterly repudiate the methods of gangsters...
...beginning there was Muscle Shoals and Senator George W. Norris's conception of electricity as a great national resource not unlike water and the good earth. President Roosevelt looked at Muscle Shoals and saw much more than a fine opportunity to settle once & for all the hoary argument of whether Government or private corporations could distribute power the more cheaply. So the Tennessee Valley became a social and economic laboratory but power is still the big point of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In charge of all TVA's power activities and, though not its chairman, admittedly its prime...
When a lay university's president dies or resigns all the world knows that months of excursions and excitements, requests and refusals, acrimony and argument will probably elapse before a new president is chosen. Last month died Rev. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of the University of Notre Dame since 1928. Last week in Notre Dame Rev. James Aloysius Burns, U. S. Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, arose at evening prayer to announce that he and four colleagues had that day chosen Rev. John Francis O'Hara, 46, to be Notre Dame...