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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Objection to any work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fairs & Furbelows | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Hart threatened to campagin against the Young Communist League for alleged interference when the Young Conservatives were being organized, and opposed repeal of the oath law. He declared that professors should have no more objection to taking an oath of loyalty than Congressmen do.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG CONSERVATIVES HEAD MAY QUIT IN INTERNAL RIFT | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

Then, instead of directing the jury as is customary to deliberate simultaneously on all three counts of the indictments-pass-ing the note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Speedy Justice | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Congress | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

One objection was enough to kill Sam Rayburn's request which, by the complex parliamentary conventions of the House, was no 'longer before that erratic body later when Illinois' Church-having created enough confusion for one day-was ready to withdraw it. Consequence was that the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slow Motion | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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