Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of that indisputable fact there might be changes on the fringes of U.S. foreign policy. Some looked at Yugoslavia with a new, strategic perspective. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft renewed the argument that the U.S. take strategically placed Spain into the community of nations fighting Communism...
...Task. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles, who had forced the Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military...
...House-Senate committee quickly approved the Senate's bill, agreeing to restore nearly $500 million sliced from the legislation on its first run in the House. Confronted with a new and persuasive argument, the full House seemed certain to vote the funds necessary to put the Atlantic pact into operation...
Since pre-trial argument began in Manhattan's federal courthouse last January, court stenographers had typed up almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...
Until somebody stopped Wilkinson & Co. (and the University of Texas seemed the only opponent in sight strong enough to give them an argument), Oklahoma belonged in the running for the national championship...