Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholly upon the compliance of the city administration. The city council had shown signs of sympathy, but Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies, with no definite plan of their own, offered only bitter opposition. Members of the Thompson cabinet charged, perhaps accurately, that Mr. Strawn's object was to discredit the administration, force Mayor Thompson out of office. The Mayor, apparently insensitive to the city's shocking condition, merely sneered at the Citizens' Rescue Committee as "reformers...
...Swedish Match Co. offered Germany a $125,000,000 loan at 6%, they made the condition that a match monopoly should be established in which the government and Swedish Match* should participate. Last week the Reichstag debated this proposal. The People's Party, the Democrats, the Communists began to object, criticize. But when Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer gravely announced that if the match agreement were not ratified, the Reichstag exchequer would face a deficit of 273,000,000 marks by July, the delegates hastened to approve the agreement by a vote of 240 to 145. So lusty are the Swedish...
...papers throughout the whole United States have made scare-head scandal stories of the matter, weekly journals of opinion have run scathing editorials and searing special articles, organizations so far removed as the California League of Women Voters have issued special manifestoes. Harvard men everywhere have been made the object of sarcastic inquiry and scornful protest, as though they were in someway responsible for the ineptitude of the Comptroller's office...
...their papers for future reference in divisional preparation. The present mid-years, in courses ending with the semester, are not returned, and this Spring will doubt less witness, the same condition unless there is a change. This prevailing method is unfair to the student and defeats much of the object of the examination. An improvement would involve simply an announcement of when and where the corrected papers may be secured. Respectfully yours, Frederick Thon...
...Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...