Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini...