Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Restraining his argument as he has restrained his resounding voice ever since Chief Justice Hughes asked him to quiet down during the Carter case. Chief Counsel Wood attacked the law strictly on constitutional grounds. His thesis was that, since the burden was laid solely on employers and on them equally regardless of unemployment conditions in their particular plants or industries, it violated both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment...
Steelmasters ascribed the raise to returning prosperity, warned that it would be promptly followed by a rise in the price of steel. C. I. O. leaders denounced it as a bribe to persuade workers against joining their union. To the mighty argument of $75,000,000 they replied with scorn. Cried Philip Murray, asserting that the raise had been decided on weeks ago and held up in the hope of crediting it to a Landon victory: "Thoroughly licked in Tuesday's election and thoroughly afraid, the steel industry is making a last belated attempt to keep workers away from...
...lintel appears to depict a ceremonial harangue by a Mayan chieftain, sitting cross-legged on an altar and flanked by bowls of fruit. Artist Baker interprets the scene thus: The two standing figures at extreme left, paying no attention, are absorbed in their own argument, while the next man indignantly nudges one of them with his hip. The first seated figure on the left is delicately poking the back of the man in front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front...
...case is expected to come up for argument in the highest Wisconsin tribunal sometime this week. If no error can be found in the decision of the lower court, Harvard will have only to settle the estate of Mrs. Nieman, pay Federal and Wisconsin taxes, and pocket the remainder. How much this will be is still very much of an unknown quantity...
William James thought that, in the last analysis, the religious experience consisted of an uneasiness and its solution, and that religion, as the term is ordinarily used, could be described as a faith state hung upon a metaphysical skeleton, the last presumably to facilitate argument, whether with oneself or with others...