Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges cried "unutterable gall." But Kaiser had a case of a sort. The Government, he pointed out, had sold the $200 million Geneva steel mill to U.S. Steel Corp. for 20.9? on the dollar-a loss of $162 million. (The other side of this argument was that Geneva had been auctioned off-and Big Steel got it because no one else wanted to pay the price it offered...
...Washington, police had to break up a duel between two crotchety Spanish-American war veterans named Emilio Capeto and John Cook. They got into an argument over a woman, began fencing creakily with their canes, ended up by banging each other over the head...
There would be argument over a measure to deny bargaining rights to any union whose officers were Communists or even party-liners. Both houses had approved the measure, but Taft and others believed it unworkable. It would certainly be susceptible to abuse by management...
...Buenos Aires' harbor, for two months, the crews of the visiting gunboats Paraguay and Humaitá had debated which side to join. Last week, in a small-arms battle that raged below and across the ships' decks, they settled their argument. When Paraguay's Ambassador Alfonso Dos Santos rushed down to fix things for Morínigo, he was kicked bodily down the gangplank. Three officers went to the hospital. Then, under command of Lieut. Rolando Ibarra, the gunboats cast off, sailed away to join the revolutionists...
...piece of work. The book will appeal most to those who remember such German films as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Blue Angel, The Beggars' Opera-some of the most glamorous and exciting movies of their time. But Dr. Kracauer's prose is pretty heavy; and his argument, though persuasive, is not always proved with scientific finality. Like some other psyche-interpreters-professional and amateur-he tends to overinterpret. It is interesting to speculate on what the same sort of intense look at Hollywood films would tell the doctor about the U.S. mind and heart...