Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the League is the extermination of the beverage liquor traffic, for the accomplishing of which the alliance of all who are in harmony with this object are invited. The League pledges itself to avoid affiliation with any political party as such and to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality on all questions of public policy not directly and immediately concerned with the traffic in strong drink...
...What is the object? To abolish propaganda? This will double...
...much-maligned souls to Ostend, Belgium. From various quarters of the globe other ships bore 5,000 more souls, equally maligned, to the same destination. They were the world's Rotarians and?as they call their wives?Rotary Anns, off to their annual international convention to promote the Sixth Object of the Rotary...
...Sixth Object: ". . . advancement of understanding, good-will and international peace...
...will agree that the abolition of public nuisances are the desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...