Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been: "Come and get it." To Mr. Stimson's suggestion of discriminatory, perhaps embroiling embargoes, he answered: "If our economic war fails, we will be in military war. . . . If we make economic war, that conclusion is inevitable. . . . If we believe we can defend this hemisphere, then the whole argument for now waging economic war weakens." He would not even make war-selling a crime, but an affair strictly at the seller's peril. This policy could be achieved by simply repealing the present Neutrality Act, enacting nothing new, putting U. S. exporters on notice by simple executive warning...
Last week Sir Reginald resigned from his $20,000 job and had the last word in the argument. "His Excellency," he wrote, "takes this opportunity to state that both he and Lady Hildyard have enjoyed very much their sojourn in Bermuda and that he would not have asked to be allowed to resign had the difficulties of transport not been so great...
...says, is some expression on a controversial point; public opinion is a result of the interactions of persons in any type of group. A typical, professional volume, piling up to 493 pages, including essays on language, propaganda, newspapers, the Gallup Poll and innumerable quotations to plug holes in the argument, Public Opinion is nevertheless more interesting than most such books...
...hide-bound isolationists. Although a majority of the students are averse to wars, particularly foreign conflicts; they seem quite willing to aid in stopping Hitler. In a word, youth seems ready to take another stabat saving Democracy despite the warnings of Senators Nye and Borah. The shop-worn argument of "splendid isolation" will have to be put on the shelf for some years to come...
Melville in the South Seas, the result of six years' sleuthing by a Duke University professor, is a 522-page argument that Melville's books are far from autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel...