Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, continuing his breakfast diplomacy, again had a picked group of Senators and Representatives at his matutinal board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
Retort. Chancellor Churchill defended himself roundly: "Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received...
...object of the ballots which have been sent out is to ascertain first whether student bodies favor present prohibition laws, modification or repeal, and second why individual students vote as they do. Only by collecting the reasons underlying votes can figures be interpreted when it comes to drawing up a report for the Federation. With this in view the Committee has, in sending out its ballots, asked four questions as follows...
This investigation is the first of its precise nature to be held at Yale. According to the university authorities the object of the experiment was to learn for the first time exactly what the undergraduates think about their university and, incidently, what the Yale undergraduate himself is like...
...ratified. They feel it necessary for their protection. . . . The leading powers have all concluded, treaties with Turkey. ... To refuse friendly relations with all peoples who reject Christianity is not only unthinkable as a practical course for the Government to pursue, but I had always supposed that the great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti-Christian nations, that they might, be brought in touch with the teachings of Christianity and thereby be induced to accept its benign precepts. . . . Are you in favor of employing an army...