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As for the President's objection to the anti-Communist provision: "Why should an individual officer refuse to sign such an affidavit if he is not a Communist? If he is a Communist, why should such a union be certified?"
I have no objection to criticism honestly offered about any of my books. But I object to attacks made upon me personally, with the whole object to belittle, humiliate and hurt me as a person. . . . I do not know how this "gentleman" obtained his garbled information about me, but I...
Snowy-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, the crotchety old dean of U.S. architects, is no conservative, but he too had an objection: the plan suffered from "skyscraperism . . . a sinister emblem for world power. . . . Grass the ground," ordered Wright, "where the proposed U.N. skyscraper would stand."
Gil and Maggie discouraged strangers from coming up the mountain. They came down only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got...
But a voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this...