Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most protracted argument of the evening raged around the question of raising the Council's purely administrative expenses. The committee, headed by William D. Weeks '49, which made the recommendations on the fund drive, suggested that a fixed charge, first suggested as $.75, should be subtracted from each donation...
...present fight started with the Key West conferences on unifying the armed forces at the beginning of last fall, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff hashed out the wartime tasks of their respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair...
...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel...
...from Lake Success to Geneva and back again-the United Nations had been arguing about an international covenant for freedom of the press. Last week, when the General Assembly finally approved the world's first treaty on the subject, it hardly seemed worth all the argument. The "Convention on the International Transmission of News and the Right of Correction" was just strong enough to make it certain that the Soviet bloc would never ratify it. But it was so weak that the U.S. would have little reason to ratify it either, after it is submitted to the nations...
...argument centered around the merits of Burke and Poskanzer...