Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that business already has all the credit which it legitimately can absorb has been found to apply only to short term borrowings. The necessity for working capital and loans of the one, three or five-year type, which could be amortized out of earnings, was first disclosed statistically by a survey made by the National Industrial Conference Board in 1932 as a result of data made available through the Committees on Business and Industry of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts...
...Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution. On the other hand...
...House vote on the conference report on the Post Office bill there was a showdown on Reedsville-a showdown that split party lines and involved more than the question of favoring the business of a few Representatives' constituents. In favor of the Reedsville project were: 1) the argument that the factory's costs would enable the Government to judge more expertly whether private manufacturers were charging too much for post-office equipment; 2) the fact that the humanitarian aims of the Reedsville project are thoroughly in accord with New Deal principles; 3) the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt personally...
...testimony was in sharp contrast to that of Deputy Auditor Thomas Buckley, who was on hand to defend Hurley. To Gill's "hit and run" charge, which came almost at the end of his closing argument, Buckley, stocky, red-faced, jumped up and snarled, "Mr. Hurley has been an elected officer of the Common-wealth for the past four years. He never offered charges he could not substantiate. He left town, not because he was a hit and run driver, but because he was ordered away (much laughter) to recover from the strain of three months delving into the frightful...
...chief argument advanced in favor of the bill is not that our present naval defense is insufficient for the national safety. Rather it is that a Treaty-strength navy will place us in a favorable bargaining position at the 1935 Naval Conference. The success of the Washington Conference should have proved that practical agreements on naval disarmament are more often reached when nations approach the diplomatic tete-a-tetes with actual evidence of disarmament as well as desire for it. Demanding smaller navies on one hand and building larger ones with the other, our government will end up by leading...