Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue handles more public money than the Secretary of the Treasury, handles it secretly and is usually the worst sort of political hack. Most past Commissioners have safely played the political game of their patrons while in office, later cashed in on their experience by becoming...
In the past, officials have countered similar requests with the objection that, since so many of the Union waiters are Freshman, the breakfast hour must end at eight-thirty in order to permit them to attend nine o'clock classes. Doubtless the objection is valid, but it has been used...
Fortnight ago began the Board of Tax Appeals hearings on: 1) the Government's claim for $3,075,103 in back taxes and penalties, based on a charge that Mr. Mellon had deliberately cheated in his 1931 income tax return; 2) Mr. Mellon's counterclaim for a $139...
¶"No objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon...
A true Siamese, the unruffled Princess replied vaguely, though with exquisite politeness. Said the Siamese Minister's secretary's secretary happily, "We do not think Her Royal Highness has any objection to her son's becoming King of Siam."