Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important argument against gown interference in town affairs is one which Harvard did not--and Dartmouth does not--realize. It is simply that the suspicious, hostile attitude of the municipality is not based upon imagination alone. Many a time college participation in town government has gummed up administrative processes. The green hills of Hanover still echo with the legendary story of the town meeting--at which students formerly voted--when the college delegation pushed through a bill for the construction of a subway line to Smith. It was left to the state legislature to repeal this measure. This playful...
...this Republican bailiwick debating "What lies ahead for Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...
...opposition maintains that the President's requested appropriation is greater than the relief need caused by the recent European crisis and the New England hurricane. To refute this argument, Representative Cannon of Missouri made eloquent use of statistics: "The appropriation of $875,00,000 recommended by the Budget will keep 3,081,000 men at work," he said. "The appropriation of $725,000,000 recommended by the committee will employ only 1,930,000. In other words, the committee proposes to throw out of employment, in the dead of winter, 1,151,300 men... It is not necessary to draw...
...news to hear a New Dealer recognize what all businessmen know: "that a minimum volume is necessary to break even on fixed expenses." That, he said, was "the significance of the President's quota of an $80,000,000,000 national income. It is in no sense an argument for a permanent unbalancing of the Federal budget...
Last week as this theory came back across the Atlantic, Dr. Segal stood up for his experiments, prepared to refute the Lancet's psychological argument. Pointing proudly to the beaming face of one of his "heroes" he said: "That Lancet editorial must have been written by an elderly pipe-smoking Englishman of the philosophical type...