Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer can we clothe our prejudice in the worn-out argument that "the Irish, Italians, Poles and the Jews have made it; so can the Negro," for we have just proved that, although other minority groups can "make it" by aggressiveness and the acquisition of power, we will never permit the Negro to follow suit...
ONLY one rational argument could be made against the new team of diplomat-warriors that President Johnson has assigned to Viet Nam: the success of its predecessors. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 64, during two tours and 29 months of duty in Saigon, has jjj overseen the wrenching political transition from Ngo Dinh Diem to Nguyen Cao Ky with rare aplomb. Lodge's deputy, William J. Porter, 52, took a scant 18 months to turn "rural pacification" from a Utopian dream to a viable program. But if the departing officials set a fast pace, the new team that Lyndon...
...clash between the judicial and legislative branches may be imminent. On the Hill, many Congressmen argue that the judiciary has no right to intervene in internal congressional affairs. Thus New York Attorney Bruce Bromley, who was retained last week to represent the House, was under instructions to limit his argument to the question of the court's jurisdiction rather than the merits of Powell's case. If the court disa grees, the House may simply ignore...
...reply, the boar burned the bull. Luther had attacked indulgences with more than theological argument. In a calculated appeal to the growing spirit of German nationalism, his treatises complained that a soft and corrupt Rome was robbing Germany of its wealth. Within weeks after he wrote them, Luther's latest polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would...
...week the FCC changed its mind. The reason for the reversal was simple: the merger is being strongly protested by the Justice Department's antitrust division - an agen cy that easily outranks the FCC in Wash ington's hierarchy. Bowing to the anti trust division's argument that the ITT-ABC merger might impede competition and open ABC public affairs pro gramming to pressure from ITT's foreign customers, the FCC, by a 4-to-O vote (with three commissioners abstaining), called for new hearings...