Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extent of labor racketeering in this country. Republican candidates for Congress, especially in the states with right-to-work laws on the ballot this fall, have declared that since the Democrats control Congress and the Kennedy-Ives bill was defeated, the Democrats defeated the Kennedy-Ives bill. This argument entirely misrepresents the issue...
...results of a Gallup poll announced last week revealed a well-obscured fact about a serious argument between the U.S. and Canada over the question: Should Red China be seated in the U.N.? Most adult Canadians, the poll showed, have only the fuzziest notion of what the argument is all about. A full 11% thought Red China already had a U.N. seat; 41% did not know. Among the minority who did know, 57% favored seating Peking. This meant that in Canada's voting population as a whole, only 27% clearly favor a U.N. seat for the Chinese Communists...
...reporting my remarks to the Committee to Study Disarmament, your reporter...did not make clear that most of my comments were addressed to Professor Sohn's argument that efforts to achieve partial disarmament steps having proved futile, world government was the only alternative to war. I said that if our only alternatives were war or world government we were likely to have a war before we would have world government. On the other hand, I urged the most careful and prayerful consideration of any partial disarmament measures that might prove feasible and suggested a few tentative ones. Measures to avert...
...That argument was echoed again this week by proponents of the NSA. The Society for Minority Rights and the Freedom Council, as well as individual students, have urged that the Council reconsider its decision, and that the matter appear before the student body in the form of a referendum...
...single argument most widely used by the bears is simply the high price of stocks. In spite of a second quarter pickup in earnings, the stocks in the Dow Jones industrials average are now selling at more than 18 times earnings, v. 7.5 times earnings in 1949, 10.2 in 1953, and 12 times earnings at the bottom of the decline last October. But few security analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish...