Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Jan. 14, under Foreign News, I read about the "stingy Swiss." (Yes, I am Swiss myself.) I do not object to your mentioning the fact that the "stingy Swiss" did not give the new President an inauguration. But I suspect you of not being properly informed concerning the Presidency in Switzerland...
...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...until last week, when Britain's new national Unemployment Assistance Board took over administration of the dole from local bodies, was it possible to do anything about Loafer Head. Surprised, resentful, Mr. Head suddenly found himself the object of the Crown's displeasure under the new regulation providing that it shall be criminal for dole drawers not to make "honest efforts" to get to work. Swift British Justice cracked down on Frederick Head with a sentence of one month at hard labor, and all over the British Isles dolesters abruptly began to look for work...
With thunderclouds of labor warfare forming on the textile front, the National Association of Manufacturers reveals a plan to propose federal legislation outlawing general and sympathetic strikes. Similar to the British Trade Disputes Act of 1927, the program hopes to prohibit all strikes and lockouts where "the object is other than in furtherance of a trade dispute in industry...
Taxes. "I do not," said President Roosevelt, "consider it advisable at this time to propose any new or additional taxes." The object of his budget-unbalancing would, in fact, be impaired by new taxes because the inflationary effect of huge government spendings would be offset by the deflationary effect of higher taxes. Nonetheless he made his desire plain: the nuisance taxes which automatically expire next summer must be re-enacted, the 3? rate for non-local first class mail must be continued...