Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel production costs. Would Phil Murray, president of the steelworkers' union, withdraw his wage demands if Fairless announced a price cut? Murray, afraid of weakening his bargaining position, would not commit himself. He has simply made it clear that he thinks Steel can raise wages, an argument given substance by U.S. Steel's 1946 net profit: $88.7 million. Murray and Fairless were like two men, who, distrusting each other, frantically held onto the same gun. Neither dared to be the first...
...winning side based its claim on the argument that no institution should be abolished unless it can clearly be shown that it is harming segments of society...
Schumpeter's rebuttal channeled the argument into the historical advances of capitalism in lifting the general standard of living and per capita well-being. By taxation and labor ascendance, he predicted, this progressive revolution of increasing plenty will be complete in about forty years...
During the five sessions (36 hours) of debate, black-cassocked priests shouted encouragement from the galleries as Peronistas made their argument: Argentina is a Catholic country (90%) and the school is the place for religious instruction. The opposition argued that "it is dangerous to use Caesar's arm to implant the Kingdom of God." At debate's end the majority voted down the opposition. 86-to-41, sent the bill to the Senate...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People seized upon the Houston mailman for a test case. Its argument: the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Gaines Case (1938) that Negroes must be admitted to white schools, unless "equal facilities" are provided for them by the state. Texas' only state-supported Negro college, Prairie View, was nothing but an overgrown trade school, offered no law course at all. The Texas Attorney General argued right back: race segregation was a part of the state constitution and could not be changed...