Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marsh, Intercollegiate Director of AYD, has written a long article (honestly entitled "Polemic) which claims that a tightly-organized group of Catholic students, directed by the Church hierarchy, has taken over the National Student Association. Unfortunately for Mr. Marsh's argument, he has slipped on many facts, and has carefully selected others. His statements that NSA's activities have been non-existent, and its policies completely in the grip of Catholic-controlled reactionaries are false. There is a vigorous Catholic bloc in NSA, and there have been unhappy examples of smear-scare techniques at their worst. But to damn...
...return to voluntary subscription would mean, abundant publicity or no, a severe drop in circulation which would lead to a curtailment of much of our advertising which depends on the large circulation. Therefore financial motivation is the News's most urgent argument for compulsory subscription. Without the money there can be no paper at Radcliffe...
...subjects were asked, "Where did you begin playing pinball?" All of them answered, "Here at Harry's". This is a good argument for vocational high schools...
Historians will probably find it no great job to riddle the argument of Dr. Beard's book. It will not be so easy to ignore his emphatic conclusion: "At this point in its history the American Republic has arrived under the theory that the President of the United States possesses limitless authority publicly to misrepresent and secretly to control foreign policy, foreign affairs and the war power...
...into war by this abuse, Beard argues, President Roosevelt began, through diplomacy, to squeeze Japan into a position where she would be sure to fight. Not only that, says Beard, but Roosevelt and Hull rejected a Japanese "truce" which might have averted a Pacific war entirely. This line of argument indicates a willingness to let Japan get away with the conquests she had already made in China. It also shows surprising willingness to regard Axis offers and promises as sincere...