Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two days' heated argument, the council voted 14-to-7 to terminate negotiations for a Russian merger. Leader of the fight against Russian admittance was British Delegate Sir Walter Citrine, president of Iftu's executive. In the minority were delegates from Leftist Spain. Mexico and France. Most disappointed was French Trade Union Leader Léon Jouhaux, who last November traveled to Moscow, there negotiated with Soviet Labor Leader Solomon Lozovsky the conditions under which Soviet workers would enter the Iftu...
That the Council has emphasized policy rather than action during the current year can best be shown by tracing its operations and examining the President's report. The argument, first, that the Council should not be the victim of commitments by its predecessor is well taken, for obviously a new Council may be unwilling to undertake an investigation left over from the previous year's program. Suggestions, not orders, are all that should be passed on. Together, the two reports by the Committee on Research were a startling expose of the double evil in Harvard of poor teaching...
With this frank assertion a girl who style herself "a co-ed" begins her article on "Chastity on the Campus" in the current American Mercury. "Our" point of view proceeds with the argument...
...least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal to this argument. According to the President, previous spending programs had not "failed" but had rather been impeded by faulty business and economic methods. This time, said the President, means would be found to prevent unabsorbed inventories and unjustifiably high prices from, in effect, "running away with the ball." To find means to prevent such...
...flowers and vegetables in shallow tanks of water, containing in solution the minerals that plants must have. Dr. Gericke calls this kind of crop-growing "hydroponics" (Greek, hydro, water; ponos, labor). His tanks have yielded some remarkable results (TIME, March 1, 1937, et seq.), but there has been much argument over whether hydroponics has any commercial value. Nevertheless, several commercial growers are using the Gericke system, foreign governments have asked questions, and the National Resources Committee has spot lighted hydroponics as one of the applied sciences which may be of future importance to the national economy...