Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill, probably with a number of compromises, will be agreed to and sent to the Senate. In the Senate the bill will be sent to the Committe on Finance, there redebated, re-amended and reported out again, probably in two forms, Republican and Democratic. Again there will be argument and amendment and passage of a compromise. Then the bill passed by the House and the bill passed by the Senate, will be sent to a joint Committee to reconcile the differences between them. A final compromise will be made and reported out again to both Houses. Either or both...
Those who consider that the main argument against the League of Nations is a reiteration of the often ill advised statement, that it is, after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every...
...without violating the eligibility rules. More advanced ground is taken theoretically in the matter of amateur standing in this report. It doubts whether a student earning his way through college should be forbidden to accept "a job in the Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets a job in a Summer hotel and plays on the hotel ball nine" and the man who is engaged as a tutor and plays with his pupils. "Both," it is submitted, "are engaged...
...authorize uniting with the Federal Council.) This defeat of the famed Bishop Brent was a victory for the Anglo-Catholic party, which prides itself on the ecclesiastical tradition of the Episcopal Church in contrast with the ecclesiastically doubtful parentage of the Puritan and other Reformation-born sects. The argument publicly put forth is that union with the "sects" would widen the breach with the Roman Catholic Church. This argument prevailed in spite of the two rebuttals: 1) The Roman Catholic Church recognizes no cousins ? from its point of view, not to be orthodox is to be heretical; a miss...
Bishop Brent put the argument on a far higher plane. Paganism is rising, the non-Christian East is threatening: "That we may be prepared, and that our children may be prepared, against a cataclysm which, if it ever comes, will overshadow what we went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven...