Word: rebutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief contentions in the Government's case which Alcoa set out last week to rebut...
...week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues...
...versus "private competitive practice," as every high-school debater should know. The issue has too many facets, too large a setting. Doctors (and who should know better?) are sincere in their belief that collectivism will topple the high standards of the profession. The socially conscious, on the other hand, rebut with well-established statistics on the shameful inadequacy of medical facilities for the poor and indigent under present conditions. The very controversial nature of the problem argues for the sufferance--may the sponsorship--of experimenation by the men in white...
...Joseph Albert Greenwood, a boyish, piano-playing Duke mathematician, some time ago undertook to rebut this suggestion, by testing the operation of pure chance on no less than 500.000 cards. Last week he announced that he had obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was below but closely approximate to the expected five hits per 25, Dr. Greenwood felt he had proved Dr. Rhine's point-that telepathic and clairvoyant humans can make much better scores than are obtainable by random card-matching...
Though he has blamed the shipowners as much as the seamen for the current maritime unrest, Mr. Kennedy also blames Frances Perkins. His opinions of the Secretary of Labor are hardly printable. And with his Irish up he marched before the Copeland Committee last week to rebut Mrs. Perkins' previous testimony that the time was not ripe for special maritime labor legislation (see p. 13). Without mentioning the Secretary by name, Mr. Kennedy observed sarcastically: "I submit that if the maritime industry is not 'ripe' for conciliation and mediation of its labor disputes, then it is overripe...