Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper common room of Adams House, United States participation in League sanctions against Italy was denied by a vote of 13 to 7. James P. Baxter, assistant professor of History, spoke briefly at the beginning, pointing out the main lines the debate should follow. Summarizing the affirmative argument, he said that inasmuch as the United States is the chief producer of most of the raw materials, neutrality, would be extremely hard to keep...
...such argument can be advanced for History 1 and Government 1. Although department heads will sometimes allow students to take an advanced instead of an elementary course if they are on the Dean's list and willing to go through reams of red tape, these exceptions are woefully rare. Any man, for example, who has taken History 5 has no business taking Government 1 afterward, unless he definitely wants to or is congenitally lazy...
There can be no argument with the proposition that Harvard must have some body of raying watchmen to protect University property and it is natural that it be placed in the same department with the janitors and goodies. The flaw in the system is that these watchmen have followed police practice and turned in suspects to their immediate superior; in this case, Mr. Apted. And there has been no consideration given to the obvious fact that an efficient head caretaker will not necessarily be a suitable person to handle student disciplinary problems...
Eight rice millers from Louisiana asked an injunction to restrain the collection of the 1? a lb. processing tax on rice pending a court decision on their argument that the tax is illegal. Refused an injunction by lower courts in the South, they got a decision from the Supreme Court. By vote of 6-to-3 (Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo dissenting) the Court granted a temporary injunction. Until the legality of the processing tax is decided the rice millers can deposit the tax alleged to be due with a depositary chosen by the Court, get it all back if they...
...Another argument which Mr. Bingham makes is that "Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee has visited Germany and obtained definite promises that there would be no prejudice against Jewish athletes". I am sure that it is not Mr. Bingham's intent to make of this issue an altercation between the Jews and the Nazi government. Yet such is the way that he phrases his thought that one is led to believe that he had this in his mind. It is regrettable that such should be the implication because if ever there was a question which required exactness...