Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diocese of Southern Ohio last week sprang fresh hope for the Episcopal budget. There a group of laymen were crying "Hold the Line" and organizing to raise money for their church in a highly businesslike manner. Their object was not only to raise $500,000 and present it to the triennial General Convention of their Church next October, but to do something that the Church has never before succeeded in doing-develop a strong organization among its half a million adult males...
...inviting them to protest and declaring that for all intents & purposes the President's Code was Postal's code. Bitterly he lashed the proposed fair practice clauses which minutely regulate leased wires, exclusive contracts and special services. At last week's hearings he thundered: "We strenuously object to injecting in the long-established rate arrangement . . . provisions which we know will add unnecessary and increased burdens to telegraph users, will bring no increase in revenue and will seriously injure the telegraph system by driving a large number of users from it entirely." What he dreaded most...
...through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant lies simply to attract interest and who collapse when someone finds them out. The scenes are mostly familiar to local readers--the Harvard club, Majestic Theatre, and hotels easily identified...
Senator Dickinson: I hold no brief for Mr. Mellon, but I do object to this sort of persecution. It makes a criminal proceeding out of what the law intends to be a civil...
Portland, Ore., pure in morals if not in grammar, last week put into effect a new ordinance for places of amusement: "No floor entertainer shall be permitted to in any way come in physical contact with any patron." Object: to keep night club hostesses out of the laps of businessmen...