Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night's forum, which was to deal with the Social Sciences, turned into an argument weighing the relative values of scientific liberalism against Marxism...
...Waters' attorney, Claude B. Cross, began the defense argument by attacking several of the charges laid down by Commissioner McDowell...
...state ownership. Such a change as is proposed by the administration would disrupt the whole system and delay the development of the area until a new federal agency could be organized with an experienced personnel. The shift in ownership would also cause a tremendous number of legal disputes. This argument adds up to the statement that a removal of tideland ownership from the states would involve a great loss to the economy as a whole and a delay in the development of important oil resources. Since there is little complaint with the state administration, there is no gain to justify...
Both sides have used national defense. Coupled with conservation, the national defense argument says that it would be impossible to fight another war on our present developed oil resources. The government should, therefore, set off oil fields for a sufficient oil reserve. The other argument says that there is a tremendous difference between oil under the ground and oil ready for use. This difference lies in exploration of oil deposits and actual drilling to determine where the producing wells are. National defense, therefore, requires the complete development of this vast, unknown oil area as soon as possible...
...Argument in Congress, after an 11-year history, is reaching its climax in this session with the inclusion of oil in the President's State of the Union message. Committee hearings on the controversy have attracted so many different issues,--states rights, conservation, and national defense--that the basic problem is often obscured...