Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laemmle said that the results of the competition had made him feel amply rewarded for undertaking a venture which had seemed to many people in the moving picture business as "foolhardy." He declared that his object in offering this prize to college students had been to "interest the coming generation of writers and thinkers, the young men and women who stand on the doorstep of life's opportunity, the class of the rank and file of intelligence who can lift moving pictures, if they are so minded, from the mediocrity with which they are threatened to the heights which they...
...formation of a permanent association, for an attempt to take the tariff out of politics, for supporting the present tariff act, the Western Tariff Association met in Denver. The association's object is to prick, when necessary, the sides of President, Congress and Tariff Commission with the spur of Western tariff desires. Mr. Coolidge wrote to the association (see page 1), sending the assurance of his "sympathetic interest...
...nucleus invited the butcher, baker, the candlestick-maker to be "citizen aids" on a general committee whose object would be the raising of $250,000 for the expense of the convention...
...object in coming to New York at a time of great stress for me is to take advantage of my friend Dr. Stephen Wise's flattering invitation to address the American Jewish Congress,* presided over by the universally beloved Nathan Straus. I expect to deliver at Carnegie Hall a somewhat lengthy address, entitled Watchman, What of the Night? It will deal with the whole Jewish problem in the setting of the larger world problem. As the only Zionist now left in the world, I shall naturally include the situation that has arisen in Palestine from the failure of Balfour...
When she returned from Russia she was furious at being lodged in a " refuge." " Me, a propagandist, who comes to visit Russia with but one object-to serve her. Par exemple! Really, anti-Bolshevists, had they arranged my trip in order to give me a horror of communistic Russia, would not have done better...