Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockton's battle, are planning expensive ports of their own: Sacramento, San Jose, Redwood City, California, and The Dalles, Ore. On the side of older ports are most ship line owners because of established handling facilities of their own and maintenance of present schedules at existing ports. Potent argument of shipowners against recognition of Stockton is that with calls to make at perhaps dozens of inland ports, shipping rates must certainly rise beyond anything hitherto contemplated...
When Mexico reverted to the old subsoil law in 1917 there was a gush of argument whether the law should be retroactive. But Ambassador Dwight Morrow in 1928 sewed up the rights of U. S. companies in an agreement with President Calles which has since been upheld by the Mexican Supreme Court. Mexico's Presidency is now occupied by New Dealing Lázaro Cárdenas. Fortnight ago, after six months of labor trouble in the oil fields which has threatened the stability of the Mexican Government, President Cárdenas disregarded the Calles-Morrow agreement, expropriated some...
...student "counsel" for tomorrow's argument will be, for the Jeremiah Smith Law Club, James N. Ackerman and John R. Covington; for the Pow-wow Club, John L. Burling '34 and William H. Smith...
Golden Boy (produced by the Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
Usher is somewhat more kindly, but he feels that the elaborate statistics adduced by Sorokin do not, on the whole, support his argument. As a historian, Usher has little sympathy with Sorokin's method of ideal types which he believes better adapted to short essays than to extended treatises...