Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although I am, like I guess millions of others, a devoted reader of TIME-budgeting my leisure to read it first on Friday each week-I object definitely to your language in TIME, March 16. On p. 34 you refer to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War as "a coalition of female societies." Your editors should certainly know that it is no such thing. It is a committee made up of eleven national women's organizations . . . functioning energetically throughout these...
...made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right to object to what Germans call the Diktat of Versailles, much less to the freely negotiated and not dictated Locarno Pact. "Once again we are asking ourselves," summed up Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., " 'Is any treaty made with Germany more than a scrap of paper?'. . . For Britain the only...
...Object of the Third (Communist) International is the violent World Revolution of the World Proletariat which finds its best chances of success in the upheavals of another world war. Object of the Second (Socialist) International is Peace. Fittingly, its headquarters are in Belgium, its chairman today is venerable Emile Vandervelde, an elder statesman once Premier and Foreign Minister...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...
Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...