Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The only other valid objection which the Philippine legislature raised against the bill granting them independence last year was the clause which reserved for the United States the right to hold its naval bases on those islands. They quite rightly pointed out that if we did hold armed control over...
Republican Hamilton Fish, in whose silk-stocking district along the Hudson River lives a voter named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asked leave to print in the Congressional Record the words of one of the few private citizens ever to be officially received on the House floor. Said Representative Fish: "Mr. Speaker...
This system is frequently opposed on the grounds that it sets up false standards of accomplishments and should not form an integral part of university training. All this is largely true. The competitions at Yale do, however, provide a certain experience that may prove useful in business. For those who...
Despite the delightful implications of your note on the death of Blue Boy, "of overeating and overgrooming, in Hollywood," I add my objection to that of Rev. Alfred Gilberg of Helena, Mont. at its inclusion in a column containing the obituaries of certain of the eminent men and women he...
Last week U. S. chemists and physicists girded up their loins for war on their British colleagues. A U. S. discoverer's right to name his own discovery had been challenged from abroad. Scientific relations between the two countries were described as "very tense." Professor Harold Clayton Urey* of...