Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with George V last week, lean, purposeful U. S. Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
Last week the case was tried by Municipal Court Justice Samuel Ecker and an all-white jury. Counsel for Horn & Hardart was Nicholas Pecora. brother of Investigator Ferdinand Pecora. His argument was that the automat had been shorthanded, and that even a Horn & Hardart executive had had to wait one hour before being served that night. Unimpressed, the jury awarded a verdict to Negro Tobias. Judge Ecker ordered Horn & Hardart...
...State legislatures which opened regular sessions last winter, New Jersey's was one of the last to go home. It left behind a legislative record that made fresh fodder for the old argument: Should State governments be abolished as political anachronisms and their administrative authority divided up among fen regional districts, as recommended by Ohio State University's Professor Peter H. Odegard, or turned over to their largest and richest cities, as favored by University of Chicago's Professor Simeon Eldridge Leland...
...King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel an impulse to burst into song and shout, while even Mr. Laski's conscious opponents cannot avoid being impressed by the relentless argument he builds up, point by point, with more than his usual power of analysis and expression...
...long be postponed. The third is that this struggle admits of no compromise, for history and all current signs indicate that the ruling class has no intention whatever of abdicating gracefully from its seat of power. As Mr. Laski states regretfully in his Preface: "I am aware that my argument is a pessimistic one, . . . but the obligation to follow the compulsion of the facts is inescapable." It was hard for the author, as one can readily believe from his earlier writings, to come to the decision that parliamentary institutions are doomed to be discarded when the final question...