Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Congress, Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa held the post. He would like to have it again. The LaFollette group do not object; they rather urge it. " But," they say, " when Mr. Cummins has these new duties he must give up the Chairmanship of the Interstate Commerce Committee." " But," reply the regular Republicans, " if Mr. Cummins leaves the Committee, Senator La Toilette, by seniority rule, will become Chairman of it?he would be able to play with the railways just as he and the other 'radicals' desire...
...Chicago, J. A. H. Hopkins of Manhattan, who styles himself " Chairman of the Committee of 48," held a conference of a party without a name. A convention was called to meet in St. Paul on May 30, 1924, for all those who object to " special privilege "-the question of a name to be taken up later...
...Pope, though the Cortes (Spanish Parliament) tried to abrogate it. Since then relations between the Vatican and the State have not been too friendly. The new order in Spain now makes it possible for a lasting agreement to be made between the State and Church, which is allegedly the object of King Alfonso...
...Montespan", inspired by the famous "Poison Affair", M. Rolland does not pretend to follow exactly the events of history. His object is to create the atmosphere of the decadent court, to develop the characters logically from what is known of them without necessarily adhering to the minor details of fact. Madame de Montespan, for example, is made to take poison and die, in his play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering...
Undergraduates and others will perhaps object to adding another requirement when the general trend in college education appears to be away from requirements. If to add this would be to break the camel's back, then it would be far better to take off some other part of the load. Certainly if the government of the country is to be good and therefore to last, it must be served by the best educated men in the country. And to serve it at all those men must have at least some smatterings of intelligence about its workings. Unfortunately Americans...