Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promulgation of this decree, intelligent Argentines were left gasping in amazement. The highly literate and weighty newsorgans La Prensa and La Nation, models of Latin journalism and traditional adversaries on almost every issue, united for once and for three days printed editorials hurling against President Justo every weapon of argument, deprecation, criticism, sarcasm, invective and ridicule. They added that the decree flatly violates the Argentine Constitution's pledge of freedom of the press...
...Constitution empower the Government to build dams for purposes of improving navigation, supplying needs of national defense. Power created by the dams is Government property and may, ruled the Court, be disposed of as freely as any other Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus sales but is primarily engaged in forcing down private rates by "yardstick" competition. The four words: "Its motives are immaterial." Businessmen were scratching their heads last week over this Court puzzler: "Of course, it is true that the U. S. Government cannot engage...
...cynic might argue that the activities undertaken in the name of science in the cinema are not more absurd than those undertaken in the name of science in reality. It would not be an easy argument to win. In She, for example, the dying physicist, who is as essential to this school of film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate...
...Bill. The chief argument was not over Title I, which sets up permanent deposit insurance on accounts up to $5,000, nor over Title III, which is largely comprised of technical amendments to the banking laws, but over Title II, dealing with the powers and prerogatives of the Federal Reserve Board. Under the Eccles draft, control of the Federal Reserve System, and hence the nation's currency & credit, stemmed straight down from the White House through the Reserve Board Governor, who would serve at the President's pleasure. Stripped would have been the twelve regional Reserve Banks of what little...
...questioned the U. S. lace-makers' contention that they could never compete on anything like equal terms with the lace-makers of France. U. S. wages are as much as 300% higher than French wages. Their argument was simply that, having raised an umbrella over a domestic lace industry 26 years ago with special tariff treatment, the Government should continue to protect it. If the Government closed its umbrella, capital would be lost and thousands of workers thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what...