Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main argument for the affirmative was that the judgments of the Court involve too much merely of the personal opinion of the justices. Harvard representatives were, in order of speaking, Thomas W. Stephenson '37, John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38, and Joseph P. Healey...
Chief job of answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...
...Until the Supreme Court implied in its argument a few days ago that agriculture is of mere local concern, no authoritative body in this land has made a contention contrary to regarding it as of national concern...
...second with 57, Sweden third with 49. Less startling than these results to the 350,000 people who watched the games was the scrupulous courtesy with which Nazi Germany utilized its opportunity to make a favorable impression on its visitors. Most significant squabble of the week was a minor argument in a hockey game in which a French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed...
Settling down to his main argument, Mayor Wilson expounded the Wilson Plan. Major knot in the P. R. T. tangle is the existence of what are known as "underlying companies." A considerable portion of the trackage over which the P. R. T. runs its cars is not owned by P. R. T., but by some 20 companies to which the original franchises were granted many years ago. Stock in these companies is owned by the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families. For the privilege of using these rights-of-way, P. R. T. pays annual leases which amount...