Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means to reduce the status of the House to that of a rubber-stamp assembly...
Again, the Christian Science Moniter, while agreeing with the broad outlines of what Mr. Wallace says, can only muster the feeble argument that Mr. Wallace is "making it harder" to put over the liberals' protest. With even Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (The Naton, April 5) declaring that "one must prefer" James Burnham's clearly faseist program, I, for one, rejoice that the liberal protest is in the hands of one with the sincerity and courage of Mr. Wallace. Durham M. Miller...
...sure that we can win this great ideological battle if we can convince people everywhere that we are fighting for human rights against the police state. We are just as sure to lose if we think that the "human rights" argument is to be used only when strategic interests are at stake. You simply cannot argue that Tito's regime is odious whereas Zervas is a Jeffersonian Democrat...
About the only serious argument used against mixed classes is that they limit discussion by introducing an inhibiting sex consciousness. But for a generation which likes to consider itself as one that treats facts as facts, this is hardly an obstacle, especially when most marginal discussion consists of shady anecdotes, which are not essential to the course. Besides it's difficult to see how sex could be introduced into...
...return the injunction as an anti-strike weapon, to outlaw industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop, the check-off of union dues, and to permit the union shop only with the employer's blessing. These and other measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal to that of management...