Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packing, politics-in-relief. They implied their impatience with the delay of Recovery, with executive experimentation, with continued deficit financing. Chastised most emphatically by the general defeat of zealous New Dealers was the end-justifies-the-means attitude expressed by Harry Hopkins when he said, in an excited private argument with friends at the Empire City race track in October: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect...
...evidence of television's need for union with cinema Cinemagnet Griffis pointed to the great cost of hooking up television stations by cable. Cheaper procedure is that of filming television programs, sending the films to transmitters. His additional argument for canned television: "Televised movies must excel any performance acted directly for the television transmitter...
Defeating the Holmes Club in the semi-final argument of the Ames Competition in the Court Room, Langdell Hall last night, the Simpson-Sayre Club swept on to the final stage of the contest...
...formal reply Administrator Andrews ruled out Argument 1, saying, in effect: newspapers are not service establishments. The problem of reporters on continuous assignments will be studied further, probably covered in a later ruling...
...Trouble With Tigers does one good thing: it settles the argument about what Saroyan's writing is all about. "I have written one word," he announces, "God." Altogether he intends to write three. The second will be "Is." The third: "Love." The announcement of this program makes dawning sense, for if Saroyan appears in his stories in any consistent role, it is as a sort of humanist jumping jack, waiting only until he has written a few more Books of Saroyan to leap forward as a U. S. prophet...