Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the object of the Nazis had been to make Dr. Anton Rintelen, "King Anton" of Nazi Styria, their Chancellor, this was as much as to say that Chancellor Dollfuss had yielded at his last gasp to the Nazi solution...
...rescue of his shaky cabinet hastened "Gastounet," carrying with him all the sympathy and affection of the French people. Once again he used that affection to club politicians out of purely partisan stands. Calmly he ruled: "Tardieu was replying to calumnies of which he had been made the object. The vehement ardor with which he sought to defend himself led him to exceed the limits within which, in my opinion, he should have remained. . . . But I never thought ... he was acting with the premeditated purpose of putting in danger my truce and the appeasement Ministry in which Herriot...
...home, of miners, of mothers in labor, is Anne. One of the most popular saints in Christendom, she has 36 churches dedicated to her in the U. S.. 30 in England, uncounted others elsewhere. Few lack a splendidly mounted relic-some part of her body, some object which she touched. By pious account these were brought from the Holy Land in the year 710 to Constantinople, where they lay in famed St. Sophia until 1333. Greeks, Copts, Syrians venerated Anne in the 4th Century, but it was 800 years before she began to win the hearts of Europe...
Nobody could positively object to the past record of Chairman Howell on aviation because he had none. All he knows about flying he learned as a passenger on occasional flights over commercial airlines. This lack of expert knowledge, however, did not prevent him from announcing, after his commission's meetings last week in the White House Cabinet Room, that he would junket through Europe next month to size up the power and progress of foreign flying...
...punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...