Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strengthened and not weakened was Senator Byrd's argument for his amendment when Senators found on their desks what newshawks considered one of the boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
Maryland's economical Millard Tydings, who thinks with Virginia's Byrd, slipped through an amendment limiting any one State to 20% of the total to be spent. His argument: "I furthermore predict New York will receive practically all the money this bill contains." Senator Tydings found support in Robert Rice Reynolds, playboy but astute politician. Sang out Senator Reynolds: ". . . If $700,000,000 of the people's money is to be expended, I want North Carolina, God bless her, to have her part, although she does not need it particularly...
...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
...police had no authority to limit the number of pickets. The police argument that the marchers intended to storm Republic's plant was "groundless...
...Hiram Dempsey and an unidentified companion appeared in the darkness, ordered her escort off the premises. When Dorothy Dempsey began to cry, 41-year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone felled Mr. Lythgoe with a black jack, Hiram Dempsey got a black eye, Mrs. Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey...