Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...
Reprinted as two of his five chapters are his argument of 1934 and a later speech explaining its genesis. Inspired by the over-complexity of professional economists on the subject of the business cycle, the original Dawes plan was to reduce the last three big depressions to their simplest terms, draw parallels for the current guidance of businessmen. Putting the months of the stockmarket crashes of 1873, 1893 and 1929 on one baseline, he superimposed charts of durable goods activity for the following ten-year periods. In each of the earlier depressions pig iron production & prices began to recover exactly...
...moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out of the market (see p. 15), New York Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay found occasion in Chicago to repeat the old argument for speculative liquidity, observing that "calculating, measured speculation has been a constructive force. . . .'' Right back at Mr. Gay came the Securities & Exchange Commission's David Saperstein with a distinction between market "liquidity" and "activity." Professional traders, said he, more often created the latter than the former because...
Even after Squire Whiting became the acknowledged boss of Phinizy County, things went on, especially on Hoop Pole Ridge. Little Bas Younger, the current he-coon, got licked in an argument in front of the courthouse, and that night his opponent's house burned down. Squire Whiting was getting ready to turn over the county to his successor, but he wanted things shipshape, so he rode out to Hoop Pole Ridge and shot Little Bas. The inhabitants of the Ridge let Little Bas lie. Said one of them to the heir apparent, "I reckon you air the he-coon...
...plans for central organization mature, to carry on intra-mural athletics more successfully, as is already the case in crew and tackle football. Princeton's rink gives them the edge in hockey, and the popularity which this has received as an intra-mural sport should be an added argument for a Harvard rink...