Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern womanhood, relieved his feelings by grabbing America's 60 Families, slamming the book to the floor, stamping his big feet...
Lobbying-When James Weldon Johnson retired to teach literature at Fisk University in 1930, Walter White succeeded to his $5,000 job and a Federal anti-lynching law officially became Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white legislators alike, was that while talk is long, the rope is short ?that in the 13 years between the Dyer filibuster and the filibuster that wrecked the Wagner-Costigan bill, mobs had lynched with practical impunity more than 290 U. S. Negroes...
Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire and the transplanted elm. After scrutinizing cogitation the transplanted elm appears blatantly impossible, either in its own context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends...
Rereading of the quoted paragraph makes manifest that no argument is held to and that nothing is established. Sound supplants sense; familiar cadences camouflage banality and intellectual inconsistency...
...rules of the Ames Competition expressly provide that decisions shall NOT be made upon the merits of the case (the law) but upon the manner in which counsel have presented their respective side of the argument. The judges are to consider only the structure of the briefs, the treatment of authorities, the skill shown in answering questions asked by the court, and the mastery of the technique of oral advocacy displayed by rival counsel, in arriving at their conclusion. Mr. Reed would not be embarrassed at having to make a decision of this nature and in no way would...