Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on the principle, "Seeing is Understanding," the Seminar has as its object arriving at a fair estimate of actual conditions in Russia, so often tempered by propaganda and personal prejudice. Russia has been chosen as the material for study because of its probable effect as a new element on civilization. Dana said, "It is the most important thing in the world today that Russia and America should understand each other...
President Hoover last week revealed himself as an undaunted top-notch tariff Republican to the end. To a world of depreciated currencies, he made object lessons of sneakers from Japan, rubbers from Czechoslovakia. Alarmed at growing imports of such footgear, the U. S. Tariff Commission found that they were being produced abroad in terms of cheap money at less than the cost of raw materials to U. S. manufacturers in gold dollars. In 1930 Japan exported to the U. S. 1,074,096 pairs of rubber-soled shoes, in 1932, 2,467,646 pairs. Ineffective appeared U. S. tariff rates...
...destroy Germany! . . . The National Government will firmly protect Christianity* as the groundwork of our entire morality. . . . The National Government will carry out the great work of reorganizing the economic life of our people by means of two great four-year plans: 1) salvation of the German farmer, with the object of maintaining the nourishment and therewith the vital basis of the nation; and 2) salvation of the German worker by a powerful and comprehensive attack on unemployment...
...lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...
...Great Britain will enter negotiations on two conditions: 1) any settlement reached must be final; 2) whatever sum the Allies agree to pay in War Debts must be so small that it "will not involve a resumption of the [Allied] claim on Germany for Reparations, which it was the object of the Lausanne settlement last year to end." At Lausanne the Allies promised to forgive Germany all but 1? on $1 of her Reparations debt IF they were similarly forgiven their War Debts by the U. S., which would thus be the ultimate loser (TIME, July 18). In Washington...