Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding and contempt of court constituted a breach of the peace-one constitutional ground for a Congressman's arrest. After much argument behind closed doors, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor was told off to go and pay the fines. Out the court building's back door soon slipped the two Congressmen. To newshawks Representative Zioncheck announced that he was going back to his apartment to look after...
...should decide in what industries to invest. Considering that the over-expansion of the automobile industry was one of the main causes of the depression, the statistics given by the Times as to the reinvestment of profits in that industry during the boom would appear to be a strong argument in favor, rather than against, the principle behind the new tax bill. Had it been in effect, the excessive boom in this industry would have been prevented, a better balance dictated by the investment market would have obtained between the different industries, and the depression caused by this maladjustment prevented...
...summary of College publications would be complete without quoting the "Harvard Brewers' Gazette" in its inimitable argument against a periodic Prohibition movement...
Many holidays during my impressionable moppetry were bewildered into discouragement from a child's losing argument on the Christian influence of Girard College and the basic Christian intentions of Stephen Girard in connection therewith as prescribed in his unique will. I have fled from my tormentors of 1912; your accurate article will answer the tormentors...
...fact that improved offensive weapons will leave fewer veterans to lobby after the next war will be introduced as an argument for immediate action. As for the economic desirability of the proposal, Robert M. Coquillette '39 will discuss "The Bonus and Recovery...