Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservatives." Any organization which states: "We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote until they again become self-supporting" is cooking food for thought and discussion. We may not agree with all their fifteen suggestions for better government; but if they can begin a virulent argument with such an organization as the Student Union, may the battle rage with long and sensible fury...
...Pierson's main argument for donations was an echo of a frank and factful study of the contraceptive business which FORTUNE published last week. Deplored he: "The majority of married couples are forced to worry along with drugstore methods of contraception. Millions of dollars' worth of material-comprising 1,500 to 2,000 devices-are being distributed through drugstores, cosmetic shops, pool parlors, gas stations, house-to-house canvassers...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
Another modification applying to the second and third baskets would be that one year's operating loss might be carried over to the next year but only as a credit against the 4% profits tax-a concession to the argument that the present law prevents companies from rebuilding surpluses after lean years...
...sake of argument, let us assume that each of 100 firms will need one man this year. Here are 100 jobs sought after by college students from north, south, east, and west, opportunities for one man from each of 100 colleges. But let's be charitable and assume there are 500 jobs. Five lucky men out of 750 or 800 at Harvard. And how many applicants...