Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument in favor of the retention of these elections is that the men can serve to represent their class. But this is not fair representation, because the elections themselves are a farce. The members of the Union Committee and its chairman are far better fitted to serve as the standard bearers for the new class. Their selection is carefully and democratically made, in order to represent a cross section of the entire group, from high school and prep school, from East and West...
...course, other channels than the fellowships through which some of the Nieman money might flow. Prizes could be awarded to the outstanding journalists of each year; undergraduates courses might be organized in newspaper history and technique; a research department might be instituted. Such suggestion are open to argument and consideration, but for the present the advantages of the fellowship plan are undeniable...
...Aafje had been out of San Pedro but a few hours, according to the survivors' stories, when Jack Morgan swaggered out to the wheel, began an argument with Dwight Faulding. When Morgan pulled a gun, Dwight Faulding ran for his. But Jack Morgan's blazed first. "Then Jack," his young wife related, "began to act just like a madman." Taking command, he forced his frightened companions into their cabins, steered south. When Elsie Berdan protested Morgan's advances, she got a clout on the head...
...current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last week as a refutation of the contention of businessmen that fear of New Deal oppression caused the present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials and supplies. Inference was that the 1937 slump was caused not by fear but by overconfidence. Since business economists have generally held that 1937 was not marked by excess inventories, the Government's conclusions if not its figures were almost certain...
...murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated at this possibility than by the proven homicide...