Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gustaf Ekman of Sweden was later accused of accepting Kreuger money for campaign purposes. He hotly denied this charge at first, then shamefacedly confessed and tendered his resignation to King Gustaf (TIME, Aug. 15). If the Premier of Sweden lied about Ivar Kreuger-so runs the small investors' argument-who knows whether a man with the Great Scoundrel's brains & money could not have "arranged" his suicide and cremation with the petty French and Swedish officials who certified the facts...
...letter printed elsewhere in these columns there is a vigorous argument against the stand taken by the CRIMSON's editorial on the case of Oakley Johnson. That editorial stated that the dismissal of Johnson from his position as teacher in the New York City College was a violation of academic freedom, since the removal was, according to press reports, due to the teacher's opinion concerning Communism, and further due to his leadership of the City College Liberal Club, a Communist organization...
...defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless leading women on the stage by Critic Nathan; an argument by Dreiser for control of adult population; articles by Eugene O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, James Branch Cabell, Louis Untermeyer, Joseph Wood Krutch...
...chief bulwarks of anti socialism in the argument that America is a two-party country. A Socialist will grant that we have two political organizations, but he fails to see any advantage in this situation when neither of them are concerned with principles he considers paramount. To a man who wants broad, all kinds of soda-pop are equally obnoxious. The bi-partisan system of government is vitiated when both parties have substantially the same conservative platform, as is the case in America. This system has always served to blind the electorate to real issues, and it continues...
...Calverton is primarily a polemic and, like many of his kind, he stretches and overstates his facts to make his case more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth...