Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department argument has been like that of a fire-chief who insists upon having for his men hose-nozzles and helmets no whit inferior to those considered necessary by the experienced chief of a neighboring town. Professional reputations are at stake as well as national safety. The Navy Department, and its "second to none" statement, were rather the agents than the reagents of the Coolidge speech. The common object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which...
Libellant Argument Given...
...libellant based its argument on the following points: 1. The libellant has sufficiently shown a presently existing marriage to sustain an action for divorce in this court. 2. The pendency of the suit for divorce brought by the libellant against the respondent in 1925 does not bar this action. 3. The proper interpretation of the divorce statute of this jurisdiction of the facts found by the Mater's Report demand that the libellant be granted a divorce on the ground of desertion. 4. The respondent is not entitled to the divorce which she seeks in her cross-libel...
...entire political philosophy foreign to the U. S. In doing so he had been indirect, impersonal, but purposeful. For example, he had cited government operation of railroads, a question not under debate. And he had quoted from the late great Laborite Samuel Gompers to improve his general argument, without explaining that the Gompers quotation had reference to Government operation of railroads and that alone. These things about the "Socialism" speech made it sound like just another political speech, and bad politics at that, because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort. Moreover, as any student of recent political history...
...Olvany's most telling argument was a quotation from famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "Tammany is our greatest social-service agency, and it holds its power because it understands sympathetically the needs and trials of the masses. Its leaders visit those who are sick and in distress. . . . Tammany asks no questions and fills out no pink and green cards. Its office hours are not from ten to four, but continuous. . . . Its virtue is its humanity...