Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hitler's newspaper, the Völkisclier Beobachter, gave a tacit answer to the pastors' letter. With easy logic, it asserted that since Der Führer is always right and since Der Führer is the party and the party is Der Führer, therefore, what any Nazi functionary does in Der Führer's name is also always right unless reversed by the Nazi Party or Der Führer...
...dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative is definitely out of the question. What was forbidden Congress so recently in the Guffey case is now denied the individual states with equal force...
...Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory, and one of infinite more promise than the shallow opera being played out on the Ethiopean plains...
...told that the insidious doctrine of pacifism is rapidly spreading in Britain and that it is partly responsible for the failure of recruiting. This doctrine is due to loose thinking, a lack of logic and in ability to face facts. . . . The leaders of the Church should say boldly that it is the duty of a man to defend his country and the ideals in which he has been brought up, and that in the whole history of Christianity there were no finer Christian heroes than soldiers...
...should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic, teach the young "the two most important elements of man as man, language and reason...