Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right to walk the streets and express himself, the privilege of carrying signs is taxable...
...favorite New Deal complaint is that the public utilities are holding back on plant expansion and equipment modernization. Since 1933 the industry has spent some $600,000,000. Critics say potential needs totaled $3,000,000,000. The utilities' argument is that the New Deal's TVA, its Public Utility Holding Company Act, its generally belligerent attitude, have made it next to impossible for utilities to float new security issues. Last week there was evidence to the contrary: investors snapped up $53,000,000 worth of utility bonds, making the month's total more than...
...This year, Lord Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge that it has made war horrible, using the now-familiar argument that the deadliest weapons of modern war - e.g., high explosives, airplanes, poison gas - were developed for peaceful purposes...
...little Spanish town of Yerba Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
...January meeting between Commentator Carter and union leaders, he announced that he would refrain from any direct comment on labor. Said he: "It takes two to make an argument, and I won't argue...