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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Freethinker in Bronze | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

The plan of hour-credits has more behind it than mere theoretical logic; its practicability has been proven in colleges all over the country and it is now the accepted system in nistitutions of all sizes. There is nothing in the present makeup of Harvard which would prevent the smooth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESIGN FOR CREDITS | 3/22/1934 | See Source »

The main failing of the present system is that it is strictly local in character and is dominated by local political interests. The Police Coordination Bill, as its title suggests, would centralize the local forces under a single head who would be authorized to move them in emergencies to places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE! | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

Of the economic aspects of this housing plan, there are one or two things which may have slipped even the nimble brains of the Party, First, will not the purchase of tenement land reduce the taxable area of the municipal government, causing it either to sustain a further loss on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

At one of the group meetings of the code authorities, Dr. Hettinger, one of the NRA's own economists, in a frank debate with General Johnson questioned the soundness of the latter's request that hours be decreased and payrolls augmented too. The objection made was against any inflexible rule...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

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