Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Army & Navy prepared to move up their heavy artillery. Scheduled to testify were War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, and probably many of the generals recently returned from Europe. To spearhead its argument, the Administration will depend on General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, the man who, although hating war, raised and trained the army which is helping to win World War II. General Marshall's often-expressed views on peacetime conscription are adamant: he is for it with no reservations...
...Their argument is given credence by some Americans on the naive assumption that the Communists are just a political faction, a minority or an opposition and in war we need cooperation, even a coalition, of all parties. We ask: why will not Chiang take in the Communists as Roosevelt takes a few Republicans into his Cabinet? But there is a very considerable difference. We Republicans do not maintain a private army exercising arbitrary armed control over whole sections of the country because we do not like some New Deal policies. But the Communists do have a private army...
...TIME [May 21] said, University of Chicago's President Hutchins has sounded the first note of an argument about which we shall (unfortunately) hear more. . . . While the world is still reeling from the full story of the almost incomprehensible savageries perpetrated upon mankind by the German nation, he is the first to blossom out again with the once-fashionable foppery of coddling criminals...
...mild, white-haired, C.I.O. President Philip Murray did not stress this side of the case. He argued that Labor deserved a 20% rise-10% to cover increased living costs and 10% more because of increased productivity. This argument was much more questionable. A rise to cover living costs would compound inflation. And "increased productivity," if it exists, can probably be chiefly credited to the greater efficiency of operating at capacity because of war demands...
However, the argument that Philip Murray did not press was more cogent. With the falling off in take-home pay and the prospect that there may soon be up to 2,500,000 temporary unemployed (during prospective reconversion), there may be too much of a recession if pay rates are not raised...