Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosive effect of these remarks was not due entirely to the fact that they revived the old argument whether capital ships are outmoded. The President proposes to build three of these $70,000,000 giants (besides two now building and two provided for in the 1939 appropriations), and by opposing them Maury Maverick, leader of the pro-Roosevelt left-wing bloc, showed his independence. His distaste for both the Naval and recession policies of the Administration he summed up on the floor of the House, saying...
Naval Big Guns. The argument about the relative value of plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...cheapen the cause by serialized articles on "Was Kindergarten Worth While?" but to the dignity of a rational report should be added some common denominator which will draw the sympathy and understanding of the taxpayers who ultimately must endorse any major scholarship program. The public can follow a logical argument, but it is sometimes shaky on the long words...
Decision in the third Quarter-Final argument of the Ames Competition was unanimously awarded last night to the Simpson-Sayre Club...
...Super Highways in Congress is J. Buell Snyder of Pennsylvania, who two years ago wrote a bill proposing "main streets across the nation" and re-introduced the measure fortnight ago. His was the only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work...