Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...afternoon papers the same day in the East while because of the difference in time, the papers on the Coast were able to use it in full. The same plan was used when President Lowell debated the League of Nations with Senator Lodge at Symphony Hall. Before the argument had ended, the A. P. had transmitted 4000 words on the event throughout the country, a second wire with extra equipment is usually installed and an expert "lineman" is in the building to watch the circuit and make a quick shift to the reserve wire if necessary. At the Boston Bureau...
...Hoover's argument touching the League of Nations is equally admirable. There is no issue between the parties on the broad question of a league or no league. As Mr. Hoover well says, the issue is solely one of method--whether it is best to seek peace by driving this country against its judgment into the Wilson league exactly as drafted, or to organize the good will of the people or America in a world league to which they can give their hearty support. New York Tribune...
...lasting establishment of the League of Nations under the guidance of a Republican Administration supported by such leaders as Root, Hughes, Taft, Hoover, and Wiekersham" as against "The Democratic hegemony of Taggart, Nugent and Tamany Hall". It would be closer to the truth, the of course detrimental to your argument, to say that you believe that Harding, indorsed by Johnson, Borah, Lodges, Moses, Viereck, and other radical politicians and admittedly pro-Ger- man schemers, will change not only his opposition to any League of Nations, but also the opinion of the leading nations of the world regarding the present League...
...uncertain terms you denounced an attack made upon your College on Sunday night, September 26. The attack was hard to swallow, and aroused your wrath. Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the attack was true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...course, understood that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their sin was the means of bringing about reform. It was the argument Jonah was to use, the weapon he was to employ; but he had the threat so firmly fixed in his mind that it became the subject of his prophecy and he lost from sight the ultimate object for which it was to be used...