Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward Roosevelt's gestures toward your business. I think there's a good deal of 'I won't play' among your businessmen, and we do hope business here gets over that attitude. . . . You should remember that the personality of your President is not an argument. It has only an artistic or emotional bearing...
...easier, however, to demonstrate the hypocrisy of America's position that to decide upon a suitable remedy. Idealists who would immediately embargo all commodity exports to the Far East are confronted with convincing economic argument that, especially in time of depression, unilateral action by the United States would be suicidal. Not only would present-day industry be crippled, but all future trade would be dislocated: a Japan so treated would hesitate ever again to become dependent on American producers. Moreover, there arises that weakest and most despicable of excuses: were we to deny ourselves this trade, other nations would immediately...
Most of the wives vote as their husbands do. "I don't browbeat her, either," one man comments. "Only after considerable argument," another one adds...
Hospitalized in New York, Administrator Hopkins did not answer either Mr. Christgau or his charges. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Carl A. Hatch urged the Christgau ouster as another argument for an amendment to the Lend-Spend Bill (see p. 11) to bar WPA personnel from "interfering with an election or affecting the results thereof...
...performance as Linda, Katharine Hepburn seems highly likely to refute the argument of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, who claimed a month ago that her box-office appeal was practically nil. Highly responsive to the cajolings of pudgy, moon-faced Director Cukor, she gives her liveliest performance since appearing in his Little Women-Restoring Cinemactress Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories...