Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...
Countering Benn's argument that centralization of economic policy extends both political and economic freedom of the people, William P. D. Bailey '46 of the Debate Council warned that nationalization can only mean socialism, and that just 20 percent but the entire economy would be controlled...
Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...
...intramural argument of the year was over steel: Was the 91 million tons of capacity enough to meet the needs of full employment? Steelmakers, haunted by fear of a recession and idle plants, stoutly said that it was. But the grey market in steel, which sold at double and triple the established price, said that it wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion...
Such an ambitious program has been decried by some who maintain that there will later be a surplus of college-trained citizens for the sort of jobs that will satisfy them. But this argument is weakened by Commission figures that show the need for 1,000,000 teachers and 56,000 doctors within a decade. And the education itself need not be aimed at producing a horde of claimants for polished white-collar jobs...