Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument that a President in his third term will be in a position to establish a dictatorship contains little logic when it is considered that the same man would have had ample time to do so in his first two terms. Furthermore, if this limitation is enacted, any such evil-minded chief executive will not thus be frustrated in his attempt. He will merely have to hasten it so that the coup falls within his allotted two terms. No president with serious dictatorial designs will permit a constitutional article or amendment to stand in the way of fulfilling his plans...
...street, reading columns of this procedural argument, was likely to ask: "What's the difference...
Eady and Cobbold could remind the creditors that: "It was your war as well as ours." But the best argument was simply that if everybody demanded his full pound of flesh, there would not be enough to go around. Before his death, Lord Keynes had spoken his mind about those sterling debts: "If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy...
...contest, first argument of the term for the Debate Council, was held in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...
Despite a logically constructed argument leading to his conclusions, by no means the most radical of these held by "progressives," Sternberg falls down in the crucial section of his treatise in transferring the historical treatment to a practical program While he is quite sure that the old capitalism is doomed. Sternberg's prognostication is clouded by his own uncertainties of the future. The flaws of Sternberg's own blueprints allow little optimism on the coming crisis...