Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prey, but it is the village boys who seduce them." Most promiscuous of the girls, daughter of an insurance man in the Southwest, had had 20 affairs in two years. Said one girl: "My chief reason for yielding is that boys are so insistent and I have no good argument against...
...finally had to take a stand against them because of the dangers as a political club rather than a social defensive weapon. I feel confident that the U. S. will eventually take the same stand. . . ." Then it was time for an Administration spokesman to present its side of the argument. The job fell to genial Jesse Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than are most of his Government compeers. Banker Jones rose at an afternoon session just after President Edward E. Brown of Chicago's First National Bank had remarked that...
...propagandist is aware of the fact that most people pride themselves on being reasonable individuals willing to be convinced by argument but impervious to a campaign based on emotional irritants and falsehoods, and takes advantage of it. President Conant warns against this conceit, stating that "Vanity badly armed with partial knowledge is sure to be overthrown...
...Board or its officers had consulted Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and Homer Martin, New Dealers Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen. Unhappy Mr. Fahy quickly asked leave to withdraw the Ford order, whereupon the board would issue a "preliminary" finding, make it available to Mr. Wood for argument, and again request the Circuit Court to enforce the amended order without reopening the entire case. While less than 2% of NLRB cases appeared to be affected by the decision, an important legal principle had been uncovered by astute Mr. Wood, one which could cause the New Deal much irritation...
...three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk the businessmen and schoolmen were farther apart than ever. Messrs. Houston & Co. accused the educators of threatening U. S. Liberties. Confessed Professor John L. Childs (chairman of the committee that...