Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object to the practice which now prevails where boards in several states meet and decide in five minutes the age-old question: What is whiskey? . . . Ill-considered and hasty attempts made by various local authorities to determine what is whiskey and how it should be labeled will result only in turning the entire market over to the bootleggers and to foreign manufacturers...
...have openly disregarded the authors' own disclaimer that they are talking only about recovery and not about reform. As Dr. Taylor appropriately remarks and as all the papers themselves show, the separation of recovery and reform in the present state of affairs is impossible. It has been my object to show how under the cover of devoting exclusive attention to recovery the authors have inevitably developed a bias toward reform as well--a bias which is of fundamental importance in influencing the judgment one may form of the economic and social policies of the Roosevelt Administration...
...President himself considers that it is neither bad taste nor beneath the dignity of his office to use tobacco, surely he would not object to the consistency of being seen in the act of using...
...Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled...
...Confederation time in the history of the world state, Mr. Mitrany's well written thoughts are worth a few hours. Minorities as safeguards are commended. "Here we see actually at work the new tendency of international law to go beyond the State and make the individual human being the object of its solicitude". That the desire for international functional administration outruns performance of legal mechanisms is brought into clear relief...