Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
That Mrs. McCarthy, whose husband was a Democratic Senator in Landon's Legislature, was not entirely disinterested in producing evidence reflecting discredit on the Landon administration, Kansas was well aware. During her Congressional term, a bitter argument preceded her removal from a park board post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced...
...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...
...current market troubles presage a major catastrophe such as occurred in 1929, this low figure was a bulwark of optimism. It proved that Wall Street credit was not over-extended as it was in 1929 when brokerage loans toted up over $8,000,000,000. Except for this strong argument the Reserve Board would almost certainly not have yielded to the Wall Street demands for lessened Government restriction...
...standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result of a shutdown, makes, to my mind, the strongest argument for discipline and responsibility of unions, even if it has to be done...