Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as other power men have become newspaper owners to ensure a market for their papermaking subsidiaries (TIME, April 22 et seq.}, so the Insull interests were entering actually into the textile trade to ensure "large numbers of new power customers." Brother Martin Insull said: "The primary object is to serve the textile industry in New England, better business there and increase employment...
...George Luks, the late Arthur B. Davies), a group which spurred the militant Society of Independent Artists and encouraged U. S. painting as such. Within a few hours of Artist Henri's death, a Henri memorial association was formed at the artist colony of Santa Fe, N. Mex. Object: $2,000,000 to build in Manhattan a gallery such as Artist Henri had often dreamed of-devoted exclusively to U. S. painting...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...
...Strawbridge movement appeared to be in retort to the work of fashionable Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin of Manhattan and other founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...
Schmeling. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling would be a long name to in scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...