Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of...
Some of the 60 contestants (British. French, Spanish, Polish, one U. S.) voiced objection to the method of scoring, claimed undue weight was placed upon finicky technical tests. Britain's Capt. Hubert S. Broad finished the tour first, but was relegated to eighth place.
Doubt arose whether this record would be officially accepted, not because any wind was blowing but because the racetrack sloped slightly upward, the finish being 30 in. higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine...
"Just Bad Legislation." President Hoover was thoroughly aroused against the pension measure. His objection was not so much to the shift from compensation to pensions as it was to the discriminating way in which Congress proposed the change. His displeasure was unmasked when at a press conference he denounced the...
Col. Murphy neither forgot, nor refused to tell, this news of the great Steel War: That at a dinner at New York's exclusive Links Clubs, last March, attended by himself, Mr. Schwab, Mr. Grace and many another promerger leader the plans were made for the purchase of Sheet...