Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President entertained a colleague from overseas, Prime Minister and Mrs. Joseph Aloysius Lyons of Australia, fresh from visiting King George in England and the Pope in Rome. Mr. Lyons' object: a friendly visit and discussion of a U. S.-Australian reciprocal trade agreement...
Codeball-on-the-Green was invented in 1929 by Dr. William Edward Code of Chicago to oblige his friend, the late Anton J. Cermak, then head of the Cook County Board, who sought an inexpensive outdoor game suited to large playgrounds. A combination of golf and soccer, its object is to kick a large, lively rubber ball down stretches of "fairway" into 14 specially constructed bowls in the smallest possible number of kicks. A set of bowls with flags, kickoff-markers and 48 inflated 12-oz. balls, all the equipment required to play Codeball anywhere, costs about $100. There...
...rest, he asked permission to have the clerk read the Democratic platform, the Lord's Prayer. Like a cheering section, the rear-row Democrats chanted "I object." And the Kingfish had to go along on his own lungs: "I do not like to take up 15 hours' time with the galleries getting empty and nobody to listen to me. The floor is getting thin; very few Senators are here, and I hate to speak to a small crowd like this...
Guffey, Minton, Moore, Burke (in chorus): We object. Long: If there should be no objection, we would all be happy, everybody would be happy. ... I should like to get an agreement, if possible. However, there is no chance-no chance of agreement...
...Valley Authority a "monstrous" project and President Roosevelt's utility ideas "an obsession," the hulking head of Public Service of New Jersey continued: "Since the present national Administration was inducted . . . there has been launched by it against this industry the most devastating and destructive attack, having for its object the end of private operation of the electric industry and its nationalization under Federal direction and ultimate ownership...