Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Marshall had demanded and gotten a special, closed-doors session of the Senate's Appropriations Committee. He wanted another $3 million tacked on to the $13 million just authorized for State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. But the committeemen listened impatiently to his argument that OIC and its "Voice of America" needed more money. They had an old argument of their own to bring...
...further in examining the political realism of their world government proposal than Einstein's statement at the meeting that two-thirds of the people on the earth might be killed in an atomic war. That estimate (which is not scientifically checkable) seemed to be argument enough...
...much Government interference: "The bill in no way interferes with the rights of the parties to bargain, in no way limits the right to strike . . . except in the case of a nationwide strike. . . . There might be something in the argument [if] the Government had not intervened in every collective bargaining on the side of labor. . . . The administration of the Wagner Act . . . made it so one-sided as to produce a general public demand that the law operate both ways. This is the effect of the new bill...
...Most of us have found ourselves in the middle of an argument about the Soviet Union. Often one member of the group says, 'Why, sure, we're going to have to fight the Russians. . . .' When we try to pin down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...
...city-desk telephones jangled. The woman on the desk answered, and what she heard made her face crease in annoyance. "Look," she said, "I'm sick and tired of the 'Don't-give-me-that-city-editor-stuff' argument. This is the city editor." Outsiders might find it hard to believe, but Agness Underwood was sitting on one of the hottest seats in town. She was the first woman city editor in Los Angeles newspaper history, the first in the Hearst empire and one of the first on a metropolitan daily anywhere...