Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formally condemned the 8-4 plan, recommended 6-4-4 as a design for U. S. public education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation of youths between 16 and 20, who once went to work but today are at loose-ends, unable...
...experimental 500 kw. till February 1939. But this time the renewal is subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before the close of the last session, Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler got an ominous resolution adopted. The resolution: that power in excess of 50 kw. for any U. S. broadcasting station is definitely against the public interest...
UNTO CAESAR-F. A. Voigt-Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand...
...collected by motor lorry, so it is unseemly, illogical, ridiculous and in bad taste that their Governor, who is, moreover, the King's representative, cannot have a car, but must poke about on foot or use a horse and carriage. Members of the Assembly pricked this pompous British argument with Bermuda chuckles which swelled into a laugh. They again voted that in Bermuda nobody can have a car on the public roads (they are allowed on private estates), recalled the immortal words of Bermuda's Sir Henry Watlington: "If the King himself wanted to ride...
...year the proposals were revived, promptly got mixed up in the Reorganization squabble. Pat McCarran had designed his bill to keep aviation well out of White House reach. Representative Lea's, more to Administration liking, sought to centralize control in the executive branch of the Government. Chief Administration argument was that since aviation is so closely related to national defense, its control ought to be centred where the President and his State, War and Navy Departments could keep an eye on it. Both bills were passed, and from joint committee conferences the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 emerged with...