Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arguments. The Government's position that the Constitution's commerce clause empowered Congress to regulate intrastate business when it "affected" interstate affairs had by now become classic. But this time the classic argument was being put by the New Deal's high legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible...
...dear Sir," came a child's voice from the direction of Anatole France, "we shan't have time for an argument here; but if I may say so, Mr. Philosopher, sometimes I feel that the smallest little ragamuffin who goes along the road with his shirt tail sticking out through a hole in his pantaloons knows more about what is real and important than all you old spectacled people in your institutions and academies. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. I am imaginary. That is to exist, I should certainly think. I am dreamed...
...Canada, Scotland and the U. S. Conservatively capitalized with 182,000 shares of preferred and common stock, it has a sound, steady earnings record. Few years ago when Weston Ltd.'s youthful President Garfield Weston arrived in the U. S. seeking fresh capital, bankers were cold to his argument that Depression is the time to expand. But Ben Smith often invests in companies because he likes their personnel, and he liked Garfield Weston. At some indeterminate date, for an unrevealed price, Ben Smith bought a block of Weston stock. Last week he was bullish enough on biscuits...
Whether the placing of Huey Long's picture on the front cover of TIME'S April 1 number was by design or otherwise I wish to extend to you my congratulations. Argument avails nothing with this type of demagog, so one is driven to resort to the method you have so ably used here in meeting their libelous attacks that of holding them out to the public as plain fools...
...they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed in Germany today 'manliness'. "Honor: An 'honor' that delights in defending through brute force and not by the power of argument. An, honor that is too often a camouflage for national aggressiveness...