Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infected. That was in 1930. Now the elms of all the Northeastern States are threatened. In New York and New Jersey 234 elms have been pruned, 126 cut down and burned. The possibility of American elms disappearing on account of the blight strengthened Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill's argument for a botanical exploration of Northern Japan, China, Korea and Manchukuo. Dr. Merrill, who is director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, called attention to the fact that native trees of eastern Asia and eastern North America are closely related.*Reason: geological and climatic changes affected both regions...
...throwing men out of work by inventing too many new processes and machines. To answer critics became the duty of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, biochemist, Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, president of the Royal Society and president of the British Association. Sir Frederick tried no statistical answer or detailed argument. There are, said he, "eight to ten individuals in the world now engaged upon scientific investigations for every one so engaged 20 years ago. . . . Whatever the consequences, the increase of scientific knowledge is at this time undergoing a positive acceleration." Only in its diversion to war is this increasing knowledge...
...years ago. When he was 14, a cyclone killed his mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably in the oil industry...
...large NRA eagle on its front page. The lusty Manhattan tabloid Daily News, which had been on a five-day week for nearly a year, also signed (but not its big brother Chicago Tribune). Said the News in an editorial: "We do not think that the free press argument is a very noble excuse for paying your office boys $13.50 a week instead of the blanket code's $15." Likewise the Milwaukee Journal signed, hired 57 additional employes, increased its yearly payroll by $100,000, roundly flayed the A. N. P. A. for its "plea for special privilege...
...Standard Oil of New Jersey, had been named a member of the advisory committee of nine chosen to aid Recovery Administrator Johnson. Last week Mr. Moffett was offered a place on the same committee. He wanted to take it. Mr. Teagle wanted him to refuse. Mr. Moffett's argument: the offered appointment was virtually a command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett...