Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of New Jersey is the defendant in the case. For 35 years, New Jersey law has prescribed the reading of five verses a day from the Old Testament. Students whose parents object are not required to be present. Even so, two New Jersey taxpayers, Mrs. Anna Klein of Hawthorne and Donald R. Doremus of East Rutherford, members of a group entitled the United Secularists of America, object seriously. They have sued on the grounds that any kind of Bible reading is a violation of the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state. Last October the New Jersey...
...Metropolitan Opera season (16 sellout performances so far) is the Met's bubbly production of Fledermaus. Last week General Manager Rudolf Bing announced that Fledermaus will be hitting the road next fall and winter in a coast-to-coast, 30-week tour of some 40 cities. Object: added revenue for the Met both in box-office receipts and increased royalties from promotion of the Met recording of Fledermaus for Columbia Records. Said Bing: "It's all in line with our new slogan, 'The Met Helps Itself...
...make good his threat. He put Lucky Luciano in jail and then let him out again; he can hardly claim that he is not familiar with Luciano. He accepted money for his presidential campaign from the same John Crane whose contributions to Mayor O'Dwyer will be the object of criminal investigation. As Frank Costello put it, you are bound to rub elbows with all kinds of people in New York...
...This kind of thing is silly," said Professor Alvin H. Hansen, referring to biographies in general, "but you can't blame the students for wanting to put something in their newspaper." Hansen has a good reason to object; for 20 years as the nation's leading Keynesian economist, he has received plenty of attention...
...Salem, Ore., the Portland Symphony lobbied with music instead of words. The whole orchestra packed up, drove 52 miles to play in the capitol rotunda. Object: permission to have a symphony subsidy plan on the Portland ballot...