Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago police rounded up a citizen whose name would have sent cold shivers down their backs ten years ago. The man: Matthew Capone, 31 (youngest, favorite brother of Al Capone), wanted for questioning about a brawl in a barbecue stand over an argument about payment of a dinner check...
There wasn't even an argument from anyone except Jim Bennett of Cornell. Bennett was chosen for the first team by five of the seven coaches and the other two gave him second-place votes. Thus on a basis of two points for a first-team election and one for second, he gained 12 points to Broberg...
Jerome Frank is a warm-blooded, quick-witted, supersensitive, argument-loving man of 51 with a bald sloping brow, bulging eyes, and the slightly travel-worn air of a shambling, sub-leonine cat. At University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking...
...Baltimore & Ohio's old (79) Daniel Willard, only Eastern railroad president in favor of really low rates, this decision was a personal triumph. The Commission's argument was right out of his mouth-that high rates subsidize bus competition, that low rates end up by increasing total revenues...
...last war didn't make the world safe for democracy, but it did leave America a heritage of hate for war as a messy, gruesome occurrence. That heritage is the difference between 1916 and now. It is the strongest peace argument around. Against it must be reckoned the belief, a belief which the last war failed to destroy in any but the academic mind, that a "war boom" is the answer to the nation's economic ills. Any man with $100,000,000 in his pocket, earmarked "to be spent for peace only," would have to face that belief...