Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument in Langdell Court room centered around the appeal of a factory owner for an injunction ordering sit-down strikers to evacuate a factory when the strike resulted from a breach of a collective bargaining agreement by the employer...
...behind inapplicable symbols resurrected from our own past, and equally inapplicable symbols imported from Europe, warning that any tendency to forget Jefferson's statements about the benefits of limited government will ultimately produce a Fascist dictatorship. Arnold should have distinguished more clearly between his dislike for the ultimate tendency argument of those opposed to any government action, and the degree to which he is concerned about ultimate tendencies...
...most convincing argument brought forth by the Admiral to refute isolationists who believe that the Big Navy bill is somehow connected with a secret Anglo-U. S. naval agreement was that the reason the Navy wanted such a big fleet was to make it independent of the need for just such alliances, give it the strength to protect both coasts alone. Thereupon, the committee called in the Big Navy bill's opponents...
...years the question of how subways in general could be improved artistically has been studied by a group of Manhattan artists. Some WPA and some not, but all members of the United American Artists, they believed that this extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...
...delegation from the Young Conservative group will send a dozen representatives to urge retention of the statute, according to leaders of the organization last night. Their argument will be that the oath bill is an inoffensive piece of legislation, aimed to assure loyalty among the teachers of the Commonwealth...