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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Why not, indeed? asked the President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Amendment | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

This change, Morison stated, is motivated by the facts that the new style, as worn in most universities, is more becoming, cooler, and no longer draws the objection once raised to it. Not only is the neck cut lower, in the newly revived type, but the gown itself is nearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACHELOR GOWNS WILL BE CHANGED FOR 1938 | 3/24/1937 | See Source »

Marvin Mclntyre, the President's secretary, wanted the job but was too intimate with shipping lobbyists. Finally the President turned to his most effective and trusted extra-Cabinet friend, red-headed Joe Kennedy. Every night for two weeks a White House limousine met Joe Kennedy as he landed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kennedy In | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

The objection that any shift which would integrate the efforts of House leaders and the elected representatives of the student body would be prejudicial to the best interests of the student body is to say simply that the interests of the Houses are incompatible with the interests of the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT COUNCIL | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

3) To limit the Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional, Senator Norris and many another liberal favor requiring more than a simple majority of the Supreme Court to hold a law unconstitutional (perhaps seven justices instead of five) in order to give Congress more latitude in legislating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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