Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold...
...Aside from his experience and reading, which are great equipment for his job, I like Old Ironpants' column for the wild, somewhat hilarious joy with which he sails into an argument. Sometimes it is a little cruel, because he is such a tremendous puncher, and like Dempsey, once that bell rings, he knows nothing but punch, punch, punch until something drops. He loves to tackle those stiff, straight-up-and-down stylish debaters who use the fancy words...
...Courses. Mr. Schlesinger is obviously not indifferent to Harvard indifference. He believes the Houses, "by balancing delicately between Harvard indifference and communal comfort have organized social life without cramping the individual." He likes the idea of the cross-system even if there are others who don't. His argument is direct and sustained, though sometimes with prophecy: "the House plan has made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more reasonable associates to Eliot and Dunster are responsible for a growing spirit of intolerance which is new to Harvard . . . Anti-pacifism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism...
...Roosevelt (Reynal & Hitchcock, $1) was written by Joseph P. Kennedy, close Roosevelt friend and onetime SEChairman, to explain why he, a man of wealth and business, finds the New Deal good. The Kennedy argument: i) the public debt the New Deal has piled up is outbalanced by economic gains it has produced; 2) its economic legislation, with the exception of the undivided earnings tax, is beneficial to industry; 3) it has brought U. S. democracy safely through the passage between the Scylla of Fascism and the Charybdis of Revolution...
...stock anti-New Deal argument is that citizens on relief are supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been...