Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Object of Priest Coughlin's personal appearance was to convert his filing case audience into a working political organization. The Detroit gathering was to be the first of a series of organization meetings. Father Coughlin told a newshawk: "It's got to be done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...
...Some object that this "priceless ingredient" is a rarity, that it is possessed only by those who are born orators, that to confront a yawning mob on a cold winter morning--or a restive one of a spring day--and fill them with a burning desire to investigate, say, the real reasons for the failure of the Paris Commune, requires long, particularized training...
Defense Attorney: Your Honor, I object, What is the D.A. trying to prove...
...through its Journal, gave him the following answer: "Man is used to the type of visual change or sensation produced by approaching an object, since his eyes are directed forward. In consequence, many people are affected by dizziness, nausea and vomiting with the eyes open in a fast moving conveyance such as a train. But there is no evidence, rational or experimental, indicating that a person sleeps better or more comfortably in a moving conveyance when the head is directed toward the direction of motion. . . . "The only possible influence on the body that could be affected by the position...
...appreciating what has been written in English. That is his magic. The conviction that but for their luck in having known him, they would be more deaf and more dumb than they are, that in truth he has helped them to live, is the reason why he is the object of a cult in which there is such fervor, such affection and such gratitude...