Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some men would have been ready to throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
Secret Ballot. The German boys run the club themselves. Sergeant Moriarty and his nine friends call themselves counselors. They provide transport, equipment, refreshments and other necessary items out of their own pockets. But from the first, Moriarty pounded home the point that the object of the club was to teach German boys the independent, democratic way of life. And they are learning it. First they elected temporary officers. G.I.s and counselors guided them. One of the first things the boys wanted to know was how the secret ballot system works. The temporary officers then drew up temporary rules. Rule No.11...
...Primary object of the committee, is that of making the Council more responsible to the student body. Deploring the individual students lack of contact with the Council and its activities, the committee has recommended that the Council "keep the student body informed of its action" by releasing annual and individual meeting reports to "recognized undergraduate publications and bulletin boards...
...primary object of the symposium is an exchange of opinions on criticism and its relationship to greater public appreciation of music and allied arts, as well as the raising of critical standards. International arrangements are being made for the gathering by Chairman Merritt...
Like Evan Evans, Hill believes in object lessons. Once, the story goes, he commanded a new agency man to follow him from his office, drove wordlessly up Fifth Avenue to Tiffany's, demanded that a clerk show him a $150,000 necklace. Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings...