Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where he has lived for 22 years, to an apartment on Jesse Jones's floor in the Mayflower. Last week in the Senate the old but still peppery Virginian uprose to refute his junior colleague's argument...
Just how far this mild argument would persuade those on the other side of the liberal chasm, was shown when Senator Norris snapped: "I have told the President that TVA should have no part in any pool with private utilities. . . . No good can come from pooling interests with enemies of the TVA program." To settle the issue, President Roosevelt appointed a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to investigate, suggest a broad national policy on power...
...Association of American Colleges. Stressing the benefits of well-planned, stiff examinations to sift the "good risk" from the "bad risk" men, the President demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of bare pass students in college fail to do well in graduate schools, and, similarly, in after life. The familiar argument that a man can loaf through college and then change overnight to a brilliant law student, President Conant described as mythical...
...once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior...
...that branch of the government had taboo written all over it. But now the question may be discussed with freedom, particularly with regard to what should constitute a majority of the Supreme Court and how the great powers of the lower courts should be. Even in the most acrimonious argument, however, it must be kept in mind that the high court is and must remain a coordinate branch of the government if it is to serve the nation, and often serve well, by outlawing passing fancies and ill-taken action...