Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
...Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). Bogged down until last December, the case warmed up when trust-busting Thurman Arnold turned it over to plump, blond Victor Waters, his able assistant. Since then the Department has been busy bolstering its contention that ASCAP is a monopoly. Thread of the Government argument: Since ASCAP insists that clients contract for all ASCAP tunes or none, any individual composer who is a member of ASCAP is deprived of potential profits when ASCAP terms are refused. "The profit from a song," says the Department, "belongs to the individual composer, not to an association...
...Congressmen. Victory has always been on their side: Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; Treasury Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills all advocated abandonment of tax exemptions, were always defeated. Ignored were Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau in 1937, and again last session. But now Messrs. Roosevelt & Morgenthau had a new argument: national defense. Of untaxable securities tabasco-tongued Mr. Morgenthau last week snorted "Slacker money!" and he complained because millionaires could loll in untaxable unholiness in Palm Beach this winter...
...propaganda, argued that the cause of Naziism was not only the cause of the have-not nations, but of the have-not classes against the oppression of the rich. He justified Nazi oppression as a method of combating that oppression. Apart from that attempted justification, it was a plausible argument himself once again as a good New Dealer." But Hitler's declaration that Germany was capable of beating the world was something else. Every middle-aged citizen of Germany remembers the long grim war and final defeat which occurred the last time Germany took on the world...
Lord Lothian did not attempt to argue that the U. S. should altruistically go to Britain's aid. His argument was simply that Hitler is a threat to the U. S. and that U. S. self-interest should dictate aid to Britain. Twice repeating that the decision was up to the U. S., he practically said that on the U. S. decision depends the fate of Britain, the outcome of the war, probably the future of the U. S. and all democracy...