Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even a legislator, however, could understand the implications of Part Three of the volume, in which its author reviews succinctly the plans of Britain, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, contrasting with them the patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm...
...White House jester George Allen saw an Eisenhower-for-President story in the papers, he lost no time writing his good friend Ike a little note: "How does it feel to be a presidential candidate?" Ike merely scrawled across the bottom of Allen's note: "Baloney! . . . . I furiously object to the word 'candidate.' I ain't and won't be." That was in 1943, Ike was in England, and D-day was still eight months away...
Better than any other press lord, the moody genius of the Daily News knew how to make the modern mass-circulation daily an attractive grab-bag, with prizes to please either sex and every taste. Critics might object that newspapers should be newspapers, and censure anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were...
...Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
...objection to compromise, which Wald so gliby suggests as the only possible solution, from the Zionists' point of view, is that Palestine has already been partitioned. Trans-Jordania has been separated from it, making a small country into a minute one. It is this minute land that many people today propose to further divide. Moreover, all the surrounding countries are almost completely Arab states. Large numbers of these Arabs have migrated into Palestine in order to take advantage of the facilities for business, sanitation, medical care, education, and agriculture of previously desert land which the Zionists have made possible...