Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussia is firm in my hands!" he shouted. "Hitler is stronger than ever. Most of the Storm Troopers are loyal. They were merely misled." He then sketched hastily the vague outlines of a plot supposed to have had for its object the kidnapping of Adolf Hitler who was to have been forced to sign a paper turning Germany over for three days to the violence of Storm Troops. In an official printed release General Göring declared...
...Prime object of the Army's Alaskan flight is to "determine whether a heavy load of bombs can be carried successfully to a distant military objective." The Navy's prime object: to teach Navy flyers "to operate in any waters, under any circumstances." With Secretary of Commerce Roper in Alaska making a survey of commercial air possibilities there, three U. S. Government departments were thus converging last week on a LT. S. territory which most strategists believe would figure prominently in any Pacific...
...also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with a grace that does credit to his hosts...
...Government members of the Code Authority submitted a proposed amendment. Prime provisions: 1) Boys over 14 may sell papers; boys under 14 may not. 2) Boys between 12 and 14 now engaged in delivering papers may continue to do so, but no new boys under 14 may be hired. Object: to "graduate" small boy carriers without cutting off their income. 3) All boys under 16 are limited to three hours work per day on school days, four hours on other days. 4) Delivery boys may start at 6 a. m. selling boys at 7 a. m. All must quit...
...places where the chances are reported to be fifty to one for sinking relentiessly into the quagmire of failure. For most of these men the days of play, the days when one can follow his own fancy as long as the Committee of Vigilantes at University Hall does not object, are over. The idealism, which this brief interlude broods in most of its participants, soon will be crumbling away under the strain of supporting families and getting ahead in chosen occupations...