Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this latter object was to be attained Governor Roosevelt did not attempt to explain. Said he: "In determining the details it goes without saying that many minds must meet and many persons must work together. . . . Many plans have been advanced. . . . The circumstances are so complex that no man can say with assurance that one particular plan is applicable to all crops. ... It will be my purpose to compose the conflicting elements of these various plans...
...Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow, from sunset until dawn; Yelp, dogs, yelp, in torture unto...
...tail to sec the object of getting particularly excited at this time about foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make first mortgages, at this time to cancel or readjust these debts to the tune of Depression prices and bankrupt business. So far as prices are concerned, it would seem that in a 62-year swing, foreign countries would have an opportunity to pay their debts at an average price dollar...
...Weimar Constitution. It was his duty and he did it. In the Reichstag chamber a polite audience of diplomats, generals, bureaucrats and their wives gazed at a platform banked with mournful purple hydrangeas. Minister von Gayl never once mentioned the word "republic" and to the Weimar Constitution, object of the ceremony, he tossed the following lemon...
...object to the Reichswehr being thrown into the struggle of internal politics. That I reject any sort of political dictatorship I made clear in my recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...