Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly drew in Idaho's Senator Borah, chronic complainant. Within the year Senator Borah had opposed President Hoover on farm relief, on the tariff, on prohibition enforcement personnel, on "freedom-of-the-seas" at the London Naval Conference. It was no great leap from loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass and South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's George and Washington's Dill joined...
...means fresh. Virginia's Congressman Montague, a Dry committee member, dozed off into restful slumber, so weary was he with hearing the same old facts used to damn the 18th Amendment. When handclapping in the audience became very loud, Dry Representative Yates of Illinois remarked: "I object to this noise. If we are to have a town meeting here I will withdraw." When nobody seemed to care whether he left or not, he decided to stay...
...does not favor a general transfer. It is opposed to transfer in regards to capital ships, aircraft carriers and submarines. In regards to cruisers, it would permit the transfer out of the 8-inch class into the 6-inch class on a percentage which remains to be arranged. The object of this arrangement would be to take into account the special needs of countries which require a large proportion of small cruisers...
...goes too far copies des tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips...
...those whom we, in our blundering, mislead. We have been content to be merchants of dead yesterdays, when we should have been guides into unborn tomorrows. We have put conformity to old customs above curiosity about new ideas. We have thought more about our subject than about our object. We have been peddlers of petty accuracies, when we should have been priests and prophets of abundant living. We have schooled our students to be clever competitors in the world as it is, when we should have been helping them to become creative cooperators in the making of the world...