Word: objection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice of accepting Liberty Bonds in exchange for merchandise, which is being followed by some merchants, tends to defeat the primary object of the sale of Liberty Bonds...
...object of this drive is merely to gain as many memberships as possible, and no attempt will be made to get large contributions. The price of membership will be $1, and no one will be asked to give more than this nominal fee. Anyone who has not subscribed since October 1 is expected to join or renew, since this membership is for the year 1918 and does not expire until December, 1918. A receipt and a button will be given for all dollar membership fees paid to the canvassers...
Today the Red Cross asks us to join an organization whose object is to lessen the sufferings of our nation's defenders—of the world's defenders. One dollar is the amount called for. There are few who cannot give this sum. The splendid gift of the American people to the Red Cross last spring proved that we were thinking of something beside sending our soldiers into battle. We wanted them cared for in their dangers. This spirit of loving kindness is with us more than ever at this time of year. As Christmas draws near, our first...
...management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies for the care of the sick and wounded in the army and relief to the needy among the civil population. My own time was devoted largely to a study...
...Angell has been lecturing in this country on "Success in Our War Aims," "What is America Fighting For?" "What Will Win the War" and "After the War Conditions." His object has been "to contribute towards the formation of such a foreign policy that Allied victory will really have those political results for which the war is being fought." He advocates that to make a successful and lasting peace, the conferences should consist of two bodies, one made up of nominees of the Government to act as an initiating and drafting committee, and the other made up of delegates...