Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Curran was selected for the administrative talent he had shown as Borough President of Manhattan (1920-21) and U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island (1923-26). Another recommendation was Major Curran's standing and acquaintance among tycoons of finance & industry. The frank object was to enlist for anti-Prohibition a roster of wealth and respectability comparable to what was recruited to "put over" Prohibition. This, it was predicted, would be a hard thing to do, because, regardless of their private convictions and habits, few wealthy citizens are willing to jeopardize their stand-in-the-community...
...neatly tabulated, year after year, by the International Union for the Relief of Disasters, a subsidiary of the League of Nations. Last week the tabulators of the I. U. R. D. announced that during the past three years the U. S. (with 76) has been the object of more "Acts of God" than any other nation. Italy was second with 64. Other nations...
...study of the mental and physical growth of school children from the time they enter school until they graduate is the object of an investigation by Professor W. F. Dearborn, which he intends to further with the funds from one of the Milton Awards which he recently received...
...taken reels of the reeling helium atoms; his picture gallery now consists of 100,000 photographs showing the tracks of about 1,000,000 atoms. The atomic trail is infinitesimal, a narrow path (usually straight but sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only 30 such collisions occurred...
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some...