Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Republican women may have their fingers in the political pie as much as Democratic women is the object of a letter which Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania wrote to John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. In 1920 at San Francisco the Democratic Convention decided that there should be one man and one women to represent each State on the Democratic National Comittee. Republican women want a similar privilege. On the Republican Executive Committee there are eight men and eight women, but since the officers of the Republican National Committee are ex-officio members of the Executive Committee...
...this question, shrouded as it frequently is in proved fraud and sensational mummery, an object of scientific attention and experiment? Chiefly because for 40 years a number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson...
...Mayor of Marion, Ohio: " The town has no money, the banks won't lend it any more. The police-men object to not being paid...
...competition is not particularly keen, and the reason is easy to find. The great majority of undergraduates have only the remotest idea of what the Dean's List is; and by most of them it is thought of as an unattainable object. When the requirements are plainly understood, it becomes evident that by a slight effort many more men could profit by its privileges than the number listed at present. The facts are these: all men who attain Groups I and II in the Rank List (that is, all who have had a record of one and one-half...
...opening, some good was done by the exchange of widely divergent views, and there is one definite although potential gain of Pan-American importance. This is the proposal for a Pan-American Congress of Jurists, which is to take place at Rio de Janeiro in 1925. The object of this congress is to codify American international law. Hope is expressed in some quarters that the codification of this law will assist the plan for a Pan-American Court of Justice...