Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunfire and air support have been far superior to those anywhere else in the Pacific. A battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Alexander A. ("Archie") Vandegrift Jr. (son of the Marine Corps commandant), said yesterday: "I used to fight with these naval aviators over air support, but I've no argument with them any longer. They've been superb." So has the artillery ashore. "As long as they don't drop any shells in our own lines, the men have confidence in it," said Vandegrift...
...other Administration bigwigs were dramatizing the role of the U.S. in international affairs. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce with a fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above Rio, for a chat...
...wearing a black patch over his bad eye, called a caucus of Democratic Senators. For well over an hour he begged them to let the George Bill come to a vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph O'Mahoney added his plea: "It is time...
Replied Miss Thompson, in effect: Editor Thackrey doesn't know a straddle when he sees one. Said she: "In the article referred to, written in 1931, I weighed the pros and cons . . . and threw the weight of my argument against the probability of Hitler obtaining a parliamentary majority. But in the concluding sentence of the article, I again left the question open...
...film gets away with this startling argument against the sanctity of unhappy marriage by playing the whole business as period melodrama (London, 1902). And very good melodrama it is. Ella Raines, Stanley Ridges and Henry Daniell are excellent respectively as Wife No. 2, the calmly cruel sleuth, and a neighbor who blackmails his way to death. Rosalind Ivan is satisfactorily terrifying as the Gorgon-like Wife No. 1. Sloping, suffer ing Charles Laughton has a high old histrionic time and gives the audience one -in one of his best roles since he played a similar mousy murderer in Payment Deferred...