Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This implied two important points: 1) Talk of Franklin Roosevelt's running for a third term is untrue. 2) His chief argument for his Court proposal will be a repetition of that which he used in his Message on the State of the Union two months ago: that Democracy must take all steps necessary for its very preservation. This he now interprets specifically to mean that laws which he believes necessary must not be declared unconstitutional by the courts...
...contention was entirely missing from the President's brief as put to Mr. Krock, his original and now badly mangled argument that more and younger judges were needed on the Supreme Court in order to help the Court keep abreast of its work. Of that, apparently, no more will be heard...
Senator Pat Harrison made the Administration's chief point that 16 such trade agreements have been made and since 1934 trade with those nations has increased from $1,400,000,000 to $1,900,000,000. Republicans hammered back with the argument that the bill delegated too much power to the President. More point was added by Senator Vandenberg when he said: Since the agreements were made, "our exports to Canada . . . went up 17%, but our imports from Canada . . . went up 30%. Our exports to Cuba went up 11%, but our imports from Cuba went up 19% Our exports...
...Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property. With that argument, he advanced the sit-down debate a long way, for it put him and Governor Hoffman...
...himself on the back, and the revived memory of November could hardly have failed to infect him with extra self-confidence. This is the best excuse for the messianic tone of his remarks whose very perfection of delivery aroused enthusiasm and revulsion. No one quarrels with his key argument--that democracy must do more for the underprivileged--but the details of the redeal give pause to many...