Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This objection stirred Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck, outspoken chairman of the Albany Port District Commission, to advance a startling new idea at the Senate hearing: "Before the U. S. should invest in the canalization of the St. Lawrence, it should place itself in a position to be a 50% beneficiary...
But if the short session votes beer, would President Hoover approve? Most indications last week were that he would not. He has repeatedly held that to authorize that which the 18th Amendment prohibits is nullification. With him the result would hinge on the moral question of whether beer is intoxicating...
As the party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they...
Arthur Lumley, 78, oldtime (1878-88) editor of The Police Gazette and manager of prizefighters (Sullivan, Fitzsimmons the original Jack Dempsey), fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And...
Another objection to present methods in American football, especially college football, is the commercial aspect of the whole thing. The amount of money charged for admission to games, and the amount spent (and wasted) upon expensive and unnecessary 'machinery,' in carrying a team through a football season, is out of...