Word: objective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spotlight with a reorganization plan of his own, but also because the President's program failed to encompass the economies which the Vir ginia Senator champions. The. RFC extension bill gave him his first chance to trans late his displeasure into action. He rose in the Senate to object...
...bureau was termed "rah, rah," by the dean of records, who did not want his name to be used. He refused the students permission to use their rooms as offices for the business since Harvard buildings are tax-free, and business men in the Square are apt to object if business is transacted in rooms which are not taxable. Permission to name the budding girl-securing business the Harvard Date Bureau was also refused by the same dean...
Food and drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...
Secretary Mclntyre substituted for the President in receiving this object. But no one could substitute for the President when Myron Charles Taylor, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, asked permission to call. Obviously Mr. Taylor came to discuss his company's side of C. I. O.'s drive on the steel and motor industries (see p. 17), but Mr. Taylor told the press: "This is not the time for talking...
...Noyes was received at dinner by King Edward, but . . . the conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes in his articles. . . . Mrs. Simpson . . . authorized him only to publish a portrait in words of herself with the object of rectifying many fantastic reports concerning her person ally. Therefore Mrs. Simpson noted with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits...