Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of the presidential campaign of 1936, the local Democratic headquarters received a telephone call. '"Say," a voice exclaimed, "tell us just what the principles of the New Deal are-we're having an argument." "Hold the phone," was the answering injunction, followed by a long pause. Then: "Sorry. We're having an argument...
...increased trade with Brazil came with the reciprocal trade treaty effective Jan. 1, 1936. Best argument to induce Brazil to take more U. S. exports was that the U. S. normally buys with internationally exchangeable dollars twice as much from Brazil as Brazil buys from the U. S. Coffee accounts for about 80% of Brazilian exports to the U. S. Later, however, the U. S. discovered another powerful trade persuader. In 1937 the U. S. agreed to sell to Brazil gold up to a value of $60,000,000 to steady Brazilian exchange. Also helpful to U. S.-Brazilian trade...
...racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them up. Attorneys for Messrs. Urell cited two previous court decisions as basis for their claims. Astoria townfolk, who had heard of damage awards granted in Washington and Alaska, were confident that Messrs. Urell would win the argument when hearings open this week...
Frank Hague, mayor and boss of Jersey City, testified last week in Federal Court at, Newark in defense of his hardboiled suppression of C. I. O. in his domain (TIME, June 13). His argument: although his ordinance requiring a permit for the distribution of handbills was unconstitutional, his police in seizing handbills from their distributors and ejecting "invaders'" from Jersey City were doing their duty. preserving the peace and protecting such visitors from violence. To demonstrate Jersey City's "Americanism," Boss Hague led a parade of 16,000 National Guardsmen, A. F. of L. Unionists, war veterans...
That a gorilla can lick a heavyweight prizefighter-even three prizefighters-was a pet theory of the late great Journalist Arthur Brisbane. Last week, onetime (1926-28) Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney focused attention on his sports editorship of the new Connecticut Nutmeg (TIME, May 30) by reviving the argument...