Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make loans where they would be helpful to the agricultural and live stock industry, but to make them on a sound business basis and upon adequate security. . . We must take no action that will make it possible to transfer losses from private interests to the public this year. The object should be reconstruction, not charity, whether it is charity for the weak or for the strong...
Arms. The League Committee on the Sale of Arms heard the U. S. case stated by Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Minister to Switzerland. The Committee then referred ad interim most of the problems before it to a subcommittee. The Committee met to try to solve U. S. objections to the St. Germain Convention, which aims at binding Governments to control private manufacture and sale of arms and at stopping international traffic in them. It was understood that the U. S. Government considered the control of manufacture and sale of arms by private firms a question for domestic politics...
Major Moore had, however, one suggestion to make: "Harvard might choose the umpires for the Yale-Princeton series, Yale for the Harvard-Princeton, and Princeton for the Harvard-Yale. Our main object is to get competent officials. We don't care much who picks them...
Today's lecture is the first of three to be given by eminent scientists on the general subject of religion and science. The object of the series is to show that the apparent conflict between the two can be reconciled without a loss of faith in the facts of either. The discussion is considered particularly timely in connection with the controversy in various churches, one of the features of which is the adaptation of Biblical doctrines in the light of scientific facts...
There was introduced in Congress last week a bill to be known by the names of its political sponsors?Senator Cummins of Iowa and Representative Vaile of Colo. The object of the bill is to repeal part of Anthony Comstock's obscenity laws of 1873 (TIME, Dec. 17), with the purpose of removing contraceptive information from the category of obscenity. The bill would remove the prohibition against the circulation of contraceptive information, provided such information were certified correct by "five graduate physicians lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine." The bill goes no further than to legalize access to birth...