Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the New York Times: "If our international broadcast programs are to be censored so that they shall not offend this or that foreign government, it is only a step to the argument that it is at least as desirable to censor our domestic programs so that they shall not offend our own Government...
...short run relationship between Harvard and the City of Cambridge has often been strained but over the long run, differences of opinion between the two have been essentially financial. Sometimes, as in the election hullabaloo last fall, the real argument is beclouded by political smoke-screens; at other times, Harvard is lambasted for "red' activities or student pranks. Still, the true bone of contention is money...
...sparse soil of Central Europe. Socialists insist that Fascism is not inevitable anywhere, and that a different system of property, political and consequent international relations would result in plenty for the German people even though their soil and raw materials are poor. But whatever the truth of the Socialist argument, it is axiomatic that a nation's total well-being under any economic system is limited by two things: the nature of the land and what is under the land, and the number and ingenuity of the population. A nation of clever and ambitious people with scant natural resources...
...Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...
...Authors. Declining to reveal which is which in their literary partnership, Charles Austin Beard claims that the secret of his congenial collaboration with his charming wife, Mary, is "division of argument." But Charles Beard is the solid head historian of the history-writing Beard family (Daughter Miriam: A History of the Business Man; Son William: Government and Technology; Son-in-Law Alfred Vagts: The History of Militarism...