Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the trial for criminal conspiracy of Albert Bacon Fall and Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Oct. 31) moved through its second week in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the presiding jurist, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, became more & more an object of public interest. Justice Siddons is a great-grandson of the late Actress Sarah Kemble Siddons. Concerning himself he says: "In my youth I thought my choice of a life's work would be either journalism or the stage. But fate decreed that I should become a lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have...
...more than Counselor of Embassy at the German Embassy at Rome. Was the German Government actually proposing to elevate a man of such minor rank to be an ambassador? Well, why not? He was evidently a capable, brilliant, clever diplomat. There was no reason why the U. S. should object to the appointment. The U. S. Secretary of State caused the German Government to be informed by cable that the President and Government of the U. S. considered Dr. von Prittwitz persona grata...
...years ago, at the exhibition of the John Quinn Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...Republican party is saturated and honeycombed with money," Senator Walsh stated. "It is directed and controlled by wealth, and its sole object is to make the men of wealth safe. Into the regulation of tariff, trusts, and interstate commerce, the present administration is throughly entrenched, supporting those men and those corporations which contribute to the party funds...
...inaccessible. It was developed by Dr. Bush, who is Professor of Electric Power Transmission at M. I. T., in conjunction with a staff of research workers including F. G. Kear, H. I. Hazen, H. R. Stewart, and F. T. Gage. The work was begun several years ago with the object of filling the urgent need for a machine which would automatically solve problems of advanced electrical theory...