Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were, of course, a number of firms in the city which sold just the machine needed. Money was no object; there wasn't any. So maybe we could borrow a bulldozer and advertise some company's product. We thought it was a good idea. Most of the firms didn...
Memories of Paris. Defending bombing raids against the North, Taylor testified that a major object is to weaken "the will of the enemy leadership," added that "the warning message is getting through." Said he: "I for one know from experience that no one derives any enjoyment from receiving incoming shells and bombs day after...
...Refugees. While the 2nd was digging out a home at Cu Chi, the U.S. Marines were abandoning An Lao Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy dead, but Double Eagle got its claws into little really organized opposition. Unfortunately, the enemy will likely soon slip back into fertile An Lao: Saigon does not have enough South Vietnamese troops to follow the marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers...
...Days to Object. Caught between an outraged chairman and an angry majority, House Speaker John McCormack worked out a compromise. The bill could be reported out, he ordered, but only in proper style and session, and with the chairman's name on it. "Sometimes," grumped Wright Patman as he went through the motions, "we have to take something that is considered bad in order to keep from taking something worse...
Waiting for President Johnson to sign the bill last week, some Congressmen were afraid that something worse might still be ahead. The bill bars monopolies, re-establishes the principle of community benefit, allows the Justice Department 30 days to object to mergers it dislikes. But the wording is so vague that it will almost certainly end up in the courts again for definition. If the Supreme Court stands by its earlier Clayton antitrust opinion, the whole commotion could start all over again...