Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Administrator Ridder was forced to a showdown on a problem over which he and all other relief officials have sweated ever since relief began. Potent is the argument of employers, as stated...
Justice Bissell. Potent is Labor's argument that private employers use the threatened loss of relief jobs as a club to force workers to accept wages below the WPA subsistence level...
...after years of argument, Congress appropriated money to build a suitable home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
...large part of the metal that has flowed to the U. S. since 1934 represents foreign capital seeking safety or investment. Fear for the dollar or returning confidence in Europe or both would probably draw the gold away. And this possibility is the chief argument against Federal Reserve Board action to cut the present high total of excess bank reserves (TIME, Feb. 10). Gold shipments reduce bank reserves by a like amount...
...taking Congress into his confidence was that everybody was occupied with "something else": Nov. 3, 1936. Unless new taxes are imposed, fiscal 1937 is likely to show a deficit of upwards of $5,000,000.000, largest in any year of Depression or Recovery -a very poor election argument for the New Deal. Since processing taxes re-enacted under the name of excises can be called substitutes rather than new taxes, they will not prevent the President from keeping his promise of "no new taxes." The same might be said of "retro-active exactions," of dubious constitutionality, which New Dealers hoped...