Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief? Last week the centre of that storm was over Chicago and, like the centre of many a storm, it was a dead calm. Democrats and Republicans, sitting side by side in conference, tackled that highly charged question. Yet there was hardly a flash of political lightning, for their object was not to get elected but to get results, not to break political heads but to try a new invention in practical government...
...obvious answer is that the legislature, controlled by the powerful mill interests, has seen fit to object to the probing finger of publicity on its most tender spot--conditions in the mills. As in the West Virginia coal mines of a few years back, and the Tennessee mines and Louisiana sugar plantations of today, the working conditions of the men and women employed is often appalling. The Moody case is an instance of the rigorous censorship which is kept on all unfavorable reports of what is going on below the Mason-Dixon Line...
Only two changes are suggested, and they two minor ones. At present concentrators object to being required to take both History 1 and Government 1 as well as a correlation field in either History or Government. They claim that this distribution work consumes too many of their 15 College courses without any corresponding benefit...
...curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist Alderson, his wife and his three children had lived on diets drawn up for families of five by the Nassau County Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, at a total cost of $8.20 per week. Their object: to see how relief recipients manage...
...dishes or did any work, because she said she was delicate. She wasn't a pioneer." Ranch biology they found engrossing. "A steer is a bull they fix so he can't give any germs to the cows to make calves." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could object to their comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives all his money to the people. But we think he ought not to give all his money to the people and ought to save some for when he is old. It would be very...