Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens tempted by roadside signs offering SIGHTSEEING FLIGHTS- FIVE MINUTES FOR ONLY $1 last week had a stern object lesson. Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend $1,000,000 now to save $10,000,000 later...
...news that Franklin Roosevelt was "seriously considering," if and when reelected, calling another world conference. Those to be invited: Britain's Edward VIII, Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler, France's Lebrun, tiptop representatives Japan and China, "a few others." Their object: to discuss Disarmament and Peace without any diplomatic folderol...
...love at all have producers for this innovation. They object to speculators interfering in the orderly marketing of their product, perhaps some day dumping their holdings and breaking the price. Another objection from the producers' standpoint is the fact that if any considerable quantity of platinum were held by the public any arbitrary rise in price would be checked by public selling. Last week's sudden rise in platinum prices, whether or not designed for the purpose, put the offerers of platinum certificates in a difficult spot. If they sold much metal at that high price...
Year later when the exhibition opened in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, newspaper critics who were uncertain how to treat Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, leaped at the Nude Descending a Staircase as a safe object of ridicule. Daily stories announced that it had been hung upside down, that it was the work of a madman. The picture was promptly bought by the late San Francisco Art Dealer Frederic C. Torrey who sold it to Author Walter Arensberg...