Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause for Alarm! (MGM) rates its exclamation point as the year's first thriller with an honest quota of thrills. It pulls off the old Hitchcock trick of giving commonplace people, events and settings a sinister meaning, and it develops its simple, one-track idea with frightening logic...
...recalled Valley Forge. "Indeed, if each of us now proves himself worthy of his countrymen fighting and dying in Korea, then success is sure . . . "Each of us must do his part. We cannot delay while we suspiciously scrutinize the sacrifices made by our neighbors, and through a weasling logic seek some way to avoid our own duties. If we Americans seize the lead, we will preserve and be worthy of our own past ... It is not my place as a soldier to dwell upon the politics, the diplomacy, the particular treaty arrangements." He was merely an individual "with some experience...
...Some of Mr. Republican's ablest party colleagues also rose to dispute the Taft and Hoover logic. "It is hard to understand how anyone can contend that the development of a defensive holding force in Europe . . . could look like aggression to such realistic men as the rulers of the Kremlin," said Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "We have . . . to get the arrow point from West to East, not from East to West...
Harry Truman had the weight of facts and logic on his side. Politicians had outdone themselves carving out weirdly shaped districts designed to increase their power at the expense of their opponents. Illinois had "saddlebag" and "beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long; and Massachusetts still has a scrawny, lizard-shaped district, resembling the original gerrymander, laid out in 1812 to preserve the political power of Governor Elbridge Gerry. In Ohio's 22nd District, Representative Frances P. Bolton served 698,650 constituents, but in the 10th District, Representative Thomas A. Jenkins spoke...
...echoed with doubts about the whole European enterprise. The idea of U.S. military involvement on the Continent had been attacked by Herbert Hoover. The scope of that involvement was scrutinized even more rigorously last week by Ohio's Taft. The debate ranged over questions of effectiveness, practicality and logic...