Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings. Various other winged characters teach Speedy and his sister air lore, give them unending confidence in air travel. Its object: to take advantage of the fact that attitudes of mind are quickly and permanently affected by propaganda absorbed in childhood...
Early last year Harvard University stiffly accepted a $1,000,000 bequest from the eccentric widow of Lucius William Nieman, rich founder of the Milwaukee Journal. Her object was to elevate standards of U. S. journalism. Harvard decided that could best be done by creating fellowships for newspapermen. Last week Harvard overseers chose nine "fellows" from 312 newspapermen who had applied for the opportunity to improve their understanding of the world they write about. The nine who will study at Harvard on a year's leave of absence from their jobs...
Although they have been able to count the thousands of stars now visible in the group, the astronomers have been unable as yet to measure its distance and size, and these characteristics must be known before the object can be properly classified. Before accurate definition of the group is possible, the observers must find within it some variable stars, whose period and brightness can be used to determine the distance and dimensions of the body, it was explained...
...director would be responsible directly to the President instead of to the Secretary of the Treasury as he is at present. Auditing Federal expense accounts would become the job of an entirely new official: an Auditor General, to be appointed by a new Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts. Object of this change is to make spending and auditing functions independent of each other (as they are in most well-run private businesses), insure prompter, sounder Government accounting...