Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Saltonstall and nine other Republicans joined 37 Democrats in voting to amend the act. The real surprise was that 20 Republicans and one Democrat (Nevada's McCarran) held out. The House, after almost as bitter an argument, passed the amendment by 220 to 105 (100 Republicans, five Democrats...
...months, the argument had gone on quietly but insistently at Washington's topmost levels. Should the U.S. seek a peace treaty with Japan? Yes, said the State Department; the time had come to bring a sovereign Japan back into the free world. No, the Pentagon protested; the U.S. did not dare withdraw its occupation troops and leave Japan wide open to Communist aggression...
Last week President Truman announced that the argument was over. "It has long been the view of the U.S. Government that the people of Japan were entitled to a peace treaty which would bring them back into the family of nations," said Mr. Truman. ". . . The U.S. Government now believes that an effort should be made ... in this direction...
Douglas also had another argument against the McCarran bill. He argued: the McCarran "blunderbuss" would not accomplish what it set out to do. What was to prevent Communist groups from changing their names as often as they were cited, from arguing their cases interminably through the courts? He argued that the bill would merely drive the Communists underground and out of sight; it was better to keep them in sight. The fact was, the McCarran bill would probably drive the Reds underground. But that was its chief usefulness. The reiterated Communist threat to go underground is political blackmail; there never...
...year-old daughter, Anna Eleanor and told her son severely: "She has a chin like mine. You'll have to start her exercising her chin." Then she turned to the problem presented by a houseful of reporters, most of them thirsting to embroil her in argument about local politics. She solved it by discussing the United Nations-so firmly, so energetically and with so much of the air of a Hokinsonian clubwoman doing flower arrangements that the press fidgeted, breathed heavily and resigned itself to an austerity diet of Larger Issues...