Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foresters of the Democratic Party are fully as active as their Republican brethren in preparing for the coming log drive. George Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois, and: Thomas Fortune Ryan of Virginia: were the most active of the axemen. The object of their activity was evidently to find among the tall trees some timber with durable and ornamental qualities equal to those of William G. McAdoo...
...Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is reported to be the real object of Mr. Brennan's affections. The latter gentleman, after seeing Mr. Wilson, went to Manhattan for several days' conference with Mr. Ryan and other Democratic leaders. Mr. Ryan is reported desirous of regaining the leadership in Virginia politics, after an absence of several years, from Senator Carter Glass, of McAdoo sympathies...
...National Woman's Party, having held a pageant representing the birth of the equal rights movement on the 75th anniversary of the latter as Seneca Falls, N. Y., is to repeat that pageant in the various sections of the country. The object of the celebrations is to promote the passage of the Party's "Absolute Equality" Amendment to the Constitution. The first repetition of the pageant was held in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs, Colo...
Chamber of Commerce. The principal object of his American trip is to induce business men to exhibit at the annual fair at Lyons, which was first organized by him in 1914 as a rival to the German fair at Leipzig. The 1924 fair will be held the first two weeks in March in the new exhibition palace, which is a kilometer in length. M. Herriot's visit includes stops in Manhattan, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Montreal, Buffalo...
Count Albert Apponyi, veteran statesman of Hungary, accompanied by his daughter, Countess Mary, who will act as his secretary, was reported on his way to visit the U. S. His object is to give a series of lectures, the first of which is to be delivered at New York University...