Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurgents moved for the abolition of the Steering Committee?a part of their tactics for revision of the rules. The entire object of their tactics was to revise the rules so that they can force discussion on the floor of any bill reported out of committee...
...command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, a special service squadron of the Royal Navy composed of the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the light cruisers Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon and Danae, sailed from Plymouth for a trip around the world that is to last 307 days. The object of the trip was said to be to show the ships in some of the chief ports of the Commonwealth...
...committee's failure to name the defending doubles team a long time in advance is not altogether warranted. In citing past defeats and emphasizing the necessity of planning a campaign a long way ahead Tilden descends to the level of so many sports where winning is the primary object and a pleasant hour or so of recreation a minor detail. The champion is inconsistent in this in that once on the court he does decidedly play for the joy of the game. After all it would be no great misfortune if, as Tilden intimates, the Cup were soon to change...
...newly formed club will have two major purposes. One object is to cut down the increased laundry bills of those students who are now wearing white shirts. The other is to begin an active campaign against the Ku Klux Klan. It is expected that the club will announce a definite platform, stating their policies in regard to these matters after the meeting today...
Thereupon the newspapermen notified Mr. Coolidge that if such was the case the burden of policing press conferences and protecting the President's confidences could no longer rest on them but must fall on Mr. Slemp. Their object in restricting the classes of persons admitted to press conferences has been, not to exclude others than newspapermen from interviews with the President, but to insure that only bona-fide journalists could be present at conferences when the President chose to speak purely for the enlightenment of correspondents and not for those who might take advantage of his words in furthering...