Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...target for preliminary tax argument the witnesses appearing this week have a set of recommendations whacked together by a Ways & Means subcommittee. All their prayers and protests, all their facts and fancies will probably fail to change the following prime provisions of the House bill...
...George White called the principals together, announced he would close the show. Most of the actors grumpily agreed to a cut in salaries if the show would continue. But Crooner Rudy Vallée, who has long been on notably bad terms with Producer White, protested. In the resulting argument, Vallée called White two mildly vulgar names. Without ado, the agile little onetime hoofer hit Vallée square on the nose-a tender spot ever since its reconstruction by plastic surgery in 1933. Said Mr. Vallée's attorney: "Rudy would have killed...
...Chicago, Mr. Hogan had just argued for a permanent injunction to keep Western Union Telegraph Co.'s Washington office from delivering to Senator Hugo Black's Lobby Investigating Committee all telegrams sent or received by the potent firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Mr. Hogan's argument was that by subpoenaing wholesale all the telegrams sent or received in Washington between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935, the Senate Committee had violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the people security "in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures." After Mr. Hogan...
...Lawyer Wood's argument was simple: "If the Congress can regulate the production of coal upon the theories now advanced, then it may regulate piecemeal and one by one substantially every industry in the country and would thereby be enabled to exercise the power specifically denied to it in the Schechter case when attempted through enactment of a single law pertaining to all industry...
...Arguments. Every one of the 320 seats in the Court Chamber was filled during these arguments, and no sooner was a seat vacated than it was instantly refilled by those who had been standing in a queue outside. Attorneys, watching critically to see what New Dealer Dickinson could do with a case that in the shadow of the Schechter decision looked far from hopeful, credited him with an able lawyer-like job. Curious laymen who hoped the Justices would pink the New Deal's attorneys fore & aft with embarrassing questions were disappointed. Neither the argument of Mr. Dickinson...