Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason: he swung an umbrella at the publisher of a Houston newspaper who had threateningly brandished a letter-opener during a heated argument. "You just can't explain that sort of thing to the people," said Holcombe...
...large measure, makes Stalin Stalin. Much of it was originated by Marx, modified by Lenin and picked up by Stalin. Since Stalin is the living actor on the stage, Historicus for convenience labels any of the theory Stalin consistently quotes as Stalin's theory.* All of Historicus' argument is based on Stalin's words, with Stalin's emphasis, not on the words of Marx or Lenin, except where Stalin repeats them with obvious approval...
This is the so-called Primary Contradiction of Capitalism, and is the sockdolager of the Marxist argument. In the long run, as Stalin reasons, the depressions will come oftener & oftener, and thus Communism will have to take over. Under Communism, the shoe factories will work as long as people need shoes...
...could scarcely fail to see that such a trial would not "commend itself to posterity." Last week, in response to an appeal by some of the convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial review under exclusively American law," he warned, "can only be regarded as a warning...
Smaller Profits. This argument got nowhere with Harvard Professor Seymour Harris, an economist who has usually taken the New Deal line. He thought that business profits were too high. And he worried, over the "overinvestment" in new plants. Said Harris: "Obviously, we are doing too much with our limited resources. Hence the pressure on prices." The fact that management was spending so much had helped cause a scramble for materials, and had driven up prices. The plant expansion, he thought, was an "inflationary factor of great importance...