Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
...lawless, criminal conduct in this case, but in open court condemned it." Attorneys for the sit-downers contended that "however unlawful their acts were, they were incidental, only a means to an end," and therefore did not constitute a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Said the Court: "This argument overlooks the fact that a strike if lawfully conducted is in itself lawful and its lawfulness now has statutory recognition. There could be no conspiracy under the Sherman Act or otherwise because of doing a lawful thing." But the sit-downers had done unlawful things, continued the Court, including restraining...
...spectators could see, they split the tape neck and neck. Both were clocked by their individual timers at 4 min. 7.2 sec., half a second short of the world mark of Cunningham who finished a close third. It took the judges five minutes of rapid argument to decide that San Romani had won by a thumb. Gene Venzke had missed his try for the three-quarter record by 8/10 of a second...
COME, COME MR. EDITOR DON'T BE SO ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
...affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared in the recent Depression. This will probably be one of the greatest arguments against restrictions. . . . All those interested in being prepared...