Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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J. Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it...
Museum Piece? The real objection, in many Senators' minds, was not to the pact but to the arms program. Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg said they were two separate matters. The State Department thought they were linked by implication but actually independent.
Then the victorious Turks met the Italians. With five minutes to play and the score tied, Italy's outside right passed to his center forward who passed to the inside left who kicked a goal. The Turks claimed the inside left was offside. The Greek referee failed to allow...
But in Mr. Cohen's case, the Prudential Committee objected. The full story behind the objection will probably never become public knowledge.
Justice Jackson had a bigger and broader objection. In his angry dissent, the man who was chief U.S. counsel at the Nürnberg trials brought into focus the dilemma of democracy: how to keep its freedoms without delivering itself to its enemies. To Jackson it was clear that Chicago...