Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House functions. Said Author Chase: "There is not a humble Negro lodge-brother who could not give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order to increase the White House appropriation to allow of lavish entertainments...
...first time in his life Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi posed last week for the talkies. "Louder, Mr. Gandhi! Louder please" wailed the talkie men. Lisped the Mahatma: "If I go to America I should like to travel not as a freak or object of curiosity in a penny peep show." Ordeal over, St. Gandhi shuddered: "It was torture, torture...
...commemorate the Allied and German soldiers on separate plaques is a miserable compromise. If the object of the memorial is to glorify the tarnished catch-words of 1918, the Germans should not be named at all. If it is a monument to patriotic Harvard men, any discrimination between them is odious. H. C. Hatfield...
...Supreme Court voided the Commission's assessment against that Class II line on the ground that in fixing its valuation the Commission had not given due weight to reproduction costs at present price levels. An item might have cost a railroad $900 in 1913. The object might have been perfectly good and serviceable in 1923. But if the railroad were obliged to replace it, the railroad might have been obliged to pay $1,500 for a new one. In the R. F. & P. case, reproduction costs were thoroughly considered...
Byrd's failure to take off for France before Lindbergh did is the first object of Fokker's scorn. Concerning the flight itself (in the Fokker-built America), Fokker dwells upon what airmen already knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...