Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national comment in the press since Saturday has dwelt upon Mr. Reed's past leading part in the argument of leading cases for the Government. Obviously he cannot be too discreet with regard to legal issues that may later come before him as a member of the court. The question for argument on Friday presents such issues...
...original estimate of its cost was $250,000. By mutual agreement this was later raised to $350,000. It is now apparent that the final cost of the building will be nearer $450.000. This sort of thing has happened often in Wright's career, and the hostile argument runs that few businessmen are as able as rich Mr. Johnson to stand the gaff of perfectionism at like cost...
Against this argument the fact stands that, out of more than 150 clients, only three or four have been seriously dissatisfied over money or anything else. Both in the early Oak Park period and later, Wright has in general attracted clients who had enough money to be adventurous but not enough to be stuffy. His personal improvidence is legendary. But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5,500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman...
...have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly and dull...
...appalling that it is small wonder Americans are prone to let the wish be parent to the thought and to dream of isolation from terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while the world rushes to destruction, it would be a convincing moral argument indeed which would persuade us to leave that sanctuary. But if, in the end, we are to be dragged, however unwillingly, into the conflict, it is shortsighted policy which prevents us from exerting our tremendous force on the side of those governments whose manifest desires, altruistic...