Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt last week (just before elections) shied off all suggestions of tax-exemption in his aloof discussion of the Lambert Plan, but Inventor Lambert had an argument appealing to more than one New Dealer: tax exemption would cost the Government nothing, since much of the capital contemplated for the vast Housing market of Phase No. 5 is now lying idle and untaxed anyway, and the stimulation to industry would increase the revenues of the Treasury...
...been the defender of unrestricted trade with the Orient ever since the China Open Door policy was sponsored by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899. U. S. warships commanded by Commodore Perry opened up Japan to trade with the Occident in 1854, and today no argument short of dispatching units of the U. S. Navy to Japanese waters seemed likely to be effective. There was no sign that the President even contemplated that. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared with more dignity than apparent conviction: "This country's position . . . remains unchanged...
...Needs No Argument...
...existence of God," Dean Matthews believes, "really needs no argument. I am personally very firmly convinced that every person has a direct assurance of God. Often this intuition is not attended to and remains a dim light. There are not actual atheists; a man becomes an atheist by reasoning himself into atheism out of a natural belief...
...proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite...