Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conclusion, it was Professor Sorokin's magnificent sincerity rather than the worth of his argument which quelled the opposition: Robert C. Cobb...
Soothing Words. Next day, he met with the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. The committee had spent two days in private argument, but members had emitted various soothing off-the-cuff announcements-that the Southern revolt was not serious, that the President's declaration of candidacy had calmed intraparty bickering, that he would be nominated on the first ballot at Philadelphia, and would probably have Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for a running mate...
Double Negative. In Chicago, Delbert Shinn was released by police after they had heard his argument that robbery of slot machines is not illegal, since slot machines are illegal...
...State Department, weighing the military argument, still clung to the hope that ERP plus diplomacy might be enough. Privately, the highest Cabinet officers pleaded with legislators for universal military training because of its "moral effect on the Russians." Their argument was full of contradictions. One top administrator summed them up: "We are sure Russia doesn't want war any more than the U.S. but she has set in motion forces which she cannot control...
Erupting Volcano. Minnesota's Joe Ball picked up the argument. Too many foreign-policy programs, he cried, have already been oversold to the U.S. people. Would ERP be any more effective? Joe Ball did not think so. He said: "It is like asking [Europe's] men and women to build a factory on the side of a volcano which is already erupting. ... I see no signs that the Administration has any policy or program ... to solve the problem of pure Soviet power aggression...