Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...algebra began to clear a little. To Byrne's job the Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne...
...British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding, in the House of Commons, that "there is nothing in this interpretation which is at variance with the view of the Government." All this had caused plenty of dismay in Rumania, which is also guaranteed by Britain and France, but which is now more menaced by the Bolsheviks than...
...wrong, the record is good. The arrangement is played in a far cleaner manner than the 1934 Lunceford band could do (although the same wouldn't be true today), but it settles once and for all the argument as to whether all a band needs to play good swing is a bunch of musicians that can read and play section well, and a good arranger. The answer is gently but firmly...
...equal to one-fourth the Federal levy, a new 2% tax on land valuations of more than $20,000 an acre. So vaguely drawn was this financing feature that critics' estimates of how much could be raised varied by millions. Bigelow himself refused to be drawn into the argument, went frighteningly on about his business...
Dynasty by Adoption. The history of Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were...