Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. argument, underwritten by some of the U.S.'s top economists, makes it appear that the issue is "growth" v. "stability." A report this week by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, falls into the same pattern: "Some stress price stability at the expense of substantially full employment and adequate growth." Following ex-Economics Professor Douglas' bent, the Democratic majority holds that policies to promote "vigorous expansion of the economy should not be unduly deterred by the possibility of future inflation...
...argument is not whether economic growth is a good thing-both sides agree that it is-but how it can best be brought about...
Opponents of the extension have stressed its cost, already estimated at $20 million, and almost sure to go higher. But while the initial costs are great, the improvement will permit substitution of profitable rapid transit operations for deficit-producing bus and trolley routes--a very appealing argument since the MTA was $15 million in the red last year...
...Another assumption which enjoys wide currency is the argument that a divided Germany threatens us with World War III. Such reasoning, I think, overlooks the basic source of tension in the world. World Communism, and world Communism alone threatens us today with world war. Germany can be no more than a pretext for war. If war comes this year-God forbid-over the Berlin crisis, it will come as a deliberate, calculated stratagem of Red aggression. Berlin is just another phase of their long-term plan to subjugate the free world. The Berlin question is just a pawn in their...
...Charity Drive should be completely separated from the Student Council. The question of who can, or will, or should assume responsibility for initiating and organizing the drive each year is certainly important; but the Council's excellent conduct of this year's successful drive provides a very strong argument for leaving the basic executive responsibility where it now rests, in the Council. John U. Monro '34, Dean of Harvard College...