Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present at the argument before the Supreme Court. Both Mr. Beck and Senator Pepper agreed that though the case at bar related to a postmaster, the real question involved the power of the President to remove the Comptroller General, who stood entrenched behind an Act of Congress which, in effect, was not unlike the Act relied upon by Postmaster Myers...
Since the time of Wilson there have been clamorous arguments as to whether the practical man or the political theorist were best; the Princeton meeting has shown the futility of this argument, and moved us forward a degree. Having bewailed the passing of statesmanship for years, we are now definitely progressing toward its rehabilitation. Those who met at Princeton were not singing a dirge; they were taking the first step on the intelligent course to a cure of our political situation...
Organized destruction of the remaining 100 dogs would be so expensive as to render what is left of the argument economically unsound, even if a force could be recruited sufficiently heartless to carry it out. TIME does well to propose no "plan...
...editor is Austin C. Lescarboura, onetime managing editor of Scientific American. Prime difference from other popular scientific magazines: Progress is written mainly by authorities, does not tell amateurs how to build gadgets at home. Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...
Leaks from the Nazi camp indicated that Leader Hitler tried to persuade the President to accept him as Chancellor chiefly by arguing that the Fascist party is now Germany's "sole bulwark against proletarianism." This argument, not mere Hitler claptrap, had strong elements of fact. Earlier in the week Dr. Paul Lobe, long considered a most moderate Socialist, Speaker of the Reichstag, with one short interlude, for twelve years (1920-32), made a pivotal speech. Seconded by other Socialist leaders, he called on the Socialist Party (Germany's second largest) to unite with the Communist Party (third largest...