Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Secretary Morgenthau brings his troubles. Last week he brought a proposal for the President's approval: to mint copper half cents which have not been minted since 1857, and aluminum mills, which have, up to now, been a money of account found only in school books. Object: to enable citizens to pay fractional cents of sales taxes. Franklin Roosevelt thought it was a great idea to save people money, personally sketched a "doughnut" half cent and a square mill, visioned citizens getting bargains...
...they objected to their names being used, to whom would they object?" a Senator asked Quay C. Haller, A. G. & E. representative from York...
...were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half of which he gave to the orchestra leader in the Biltmore Bowl to let him sing his song. The Object of My Affection. Since then he has made close to $100,000 crooning, acting, and selling at huge prices five new songs to film companies...
...from $74,000,000 in 1932 to $103,000,000 last year. "The management," he concluded, ''feels that this proposed financing is so obviously in the interest of the stockholders, that it is difficult to believe that any stockholder, acting solely in his interest as such, would object...
Today 85, but still taking his setting-up exercises every morning, Connaught has been a holy terror all his life to every regiment he has honored by inspection. Unlike Nephew George V, whose object on such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal...