Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irna conceived it, and with it Irna rang the Crossley bell. Today's Children ran for six and a half years. It was still number one with Crossley when Irna stopped writing it. She based her move on the belief that her characters had run through all possible logical situations. "When you have saturated logic," she says, "you should take your show...
...because it was a Catholic nation. To the liberal Western mind, Poland seemed a backward and feudal country, greatly inferior in efficient industrial plant and social services-two modern criteria of civilization-even to Nazi Germany. To those who like to dispose of other people's affairs by logic alone, the logical conclusion should have been that it did Poland good last autumn to be taken over and "organized" by two such efficient neighbors...
...verbal preparedness blitzkrieg, the New York Times last Friday urged immediate adoption of "compulsory universal military training for America" because the "logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Their bombshell was followed over the week-end by speeches and resolutions of interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory...
...educational counselor and publisher of an annual school and college handbook, has categorically stated that American universities--Harvard in particular--forced us in to the first World War and are now doing their best to enroll us in the current edition. His conclusion rests on a tenuous thread of logic running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again to protect and enrich...
...Sargent's non-interventionist argument helps balance the pro-Allied utterances of others. Despite its superficial counter-propaganda value, though, his argumentation represents an undesirable type of support for the non-interventionist cause. Interventionists can shoot such logic full of holes and then triumphantly demand our participation in the War. With many sound arguments to back non-intervention it is both unnecessary and dangerous to adopt Mr. Sargent's views...