Word: objections
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...European newspapers played up the Ferranti story as a prime object lesson to "prove" that the U.S. was not practicing what it preached. Biggest complaints came from continental businessmen who have resented ECA's constant pressure for freer trade and from Britons who have persistently ignored the requirements of the U.S. market. They complained that Americans were not permitting free competition in the U.S. by Europeans. Sir Cecil Weir, chairman of the British Dollar Export Board, even hustled over to ECA's Washington office to protest that Seattle had discriminated against Ferranti...
...bushels of wheat to Western Germany and Japan this year under the 38-nation International Wheat Agreement. Since the grain will be paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object of the wheat agreement was to restore normal world wheat trade, not provide dumping machinery for surpluses. Canada asked for a quota of between 20 and 30 million bushels...
...time, other colleges began to agree. By last week, as 65-year-old Harry Carman reached the retirement age for "deaning," Columbia's three-legged stool had been copied on campuses throughout the U.S. "Let's not forget Montaigne's admonition," Carman once advised: "'The object of education is to make, not a scholar, but a man.' " If U.S. colleges had begun to make less lopsided men, it was partly because of Dean Carman...
...officers of the HYRC particularly object to the FCC's taking such drastic action without a hearing or even a fair warning...
Radcliffe Dean Sherman has implied that the Annex would approve the extension of joint instruction. She doubted that Radcliffe would object if the governing boards passed the new measure. A protest from the Annex Administrative Council would be unlikely, she said...