Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professor had just been telling friends at Sunday dinner why the Japanese would never start a war now. He came out of the house to read the headlines. Another spent all of his Friday lecture explaining with iron logic that the Nipponese could not open hostilities for a long time to come; Monday's hour was filled with an equally convincing explanation of why they could do nothing but what they...
...railroads at treble the usual U.S. rates. But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that. Now a county tax board appointed by Governor Edison-after he kicked out a Hague-controlled board on charges of misconduct-is trying to bring some logic into Jersey City's inflated property-tax assessments...
...last week's statements of long-term democratic logic came from WTendell Willkie who had the advantage of being free from the close contacts of U.S. politics. Said he from Chungking...
...conviction, a man from a heavily agricultural State, and worse, a man running for reelection this year, Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat. Senator Brown set himself in the path of the farm-bloc juggernaut. The 250-odd farm lobbyists had the votes-but Senator Brown had logic and virtue on his side...
...Logic. The farm bloc, at 100% parity, had by law the right to receive as high a relative price for their products as they received in a favorable period 30 years ago. Now they wanted a 12% bonus above this; and wanted 90% parity prices guaranteed them by Government loans. If there were a loss, the Government, meaning the U.S. people, would take it; if there were a profit, the top-drawer farmers would absorb...