Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the clarity of this fault, no remedy has been taken since "it might lower the standards of a degree." The schools should give this training; there is no reason why Harvard should demand one less course for a degree, so the argument goes. Sidetracking the dispute in this manner not only fails to settle the problem but fails to hit at the root of the error...
...week after again threatening a general automobile shutdown by a strike in Toledo's Chevrolet transmissions plant-a strike which forced the closing of 16 other General Motors plants-A. F. of L. again made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result from...
...paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward something better. But were they...
Among senators a bad argument is as effective as a good one, so that Mr. Aldrich's stand on the Banking Bill need not be too carefully analyzed. But from the point of view of the general public, Mr. Aldrich should have clarified the issue more carefully and consistently than he did. After all, the senators are a select group who can be fooled most of the time; the public must be dealt with more carefully...
...deny these charges the defense put Frank Parish on the stand. The blond, blue-eyed, good-humored promoter who has spent the last three years trying to get Missouri-Kansas out of receivership spent three days reinforcing the chief argument of his defense: that Missouri-Kansas had been deliberately scuttled by the predatory attacks of its enemies, chiefly Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. and Standard Oil of New Jersey, who resented Mr. Parish's invasion of their territories. On Saturday, June 14, 1930 they warned him, said Witness Parish, that if he did not sell...