Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inequities in this campaign are obvious. ROTC men who for medical reasons cannot give blood, who have been drained less than six weeks ago (at a time when their generosity did not involve merits and such), who object on some private principle, or who are possessed by phobias against needles they are unjustly deprived of an opportunity for privileges which is available to their colleagues. They are also unjustly subjected to a mass hostility, subtle or blatant as the case may be, which is blind to exceptions...
...Democrats' turn to object. Their policy committee denounced the amendment because it implied that the secret agreements might be invalid. The Republican policy committee insisted on the change. Instead of unanimous support, the declarations against enslavement, as amended, seemed headed for a close party-line vote, so close that the resolution would lose its intended impact on the enslaved peoples...
Opinion in the faculty at this time reflects a general dissatisfaction with Furry's testimony, but many who take this attitude would object very strongly to his dismissal...
...focus on Douglas McKay, the new Secretary of the Interior. An ardent states-rights governor of Oregon for the past two years, he told the Senate Committee of the Interior that "public power was getting most of the breaks in the Northwest." This may mean that McKay will not object if Congress fails to appropriate money for new transmission lines; it might even mean that McKay will want to let the private companies build the new projects on the Columbia. In any event, private utilities all over the country will eagerly watch developments in the Northwest to gain strength...
This week, the good citizens of Toledo, Ohio, huddle in small groups in their living rooms and cast mutinous glances at their television sets. In bitter whispers, they account past sacrifices to the squat, pudgy object which stares back blankly out of its glassy eye. It was supposed to reunite the American family, revitalize the entertainment business, succor the optical industry. For these boons, people were quite willing, when the set took up residence, to shift their furniture and remodel their draperies to give it a fit setting. And they suffered through telecrane (a stiffness of the muscles...