Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children on the White House lawn. Unless a real strike crisis forced him to it or until he was ready to use it as an argument for his Supreme Court plan, Sit-Downs were apparently one platter of potatoes on which Franklin Roosevelt did not intend to singe his Presidential fingers...
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, first opposition witness, had made his sensation with Chief Justice Hughes's letter refuting the argument that the Court is overburdened (TIME, March 29)-a point on which the President's warmest supporters heartily wish that he had rejected his Attorney General's advice. Come to flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend...
...rule, general dental work is not done at the Clinic, but rather turned over to an approved list of graduates from Harvard's Dental School who are practicing in Cambridge or Boston. But certain needy students are taken care of by the Clinic. The main argument against an enlargement of activity, with resultant relief of the congestion, has been that these needy men would suffer by it. This hardly seems necessary...
...Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court. He accused investment bankers of a "sitdown" against the Securities Act of 1933 utilities men against the Utility Holding Company Act, employers against...
...eyes, and 34 in. bust." Only hitch in her quick rise was that Father Martin suddenly determined that she should finish her college course. When Heloise refused, he enlisted the aid of her friends Korman and Vallee (Yale '27) and with them engaged Heloise in a long-drawn argument. "Look at Katharine Hepburn," said Photographer Korman, "there was a girl with no looks but a college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed...