Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slinging: "Cleveland was the object of much underground accusation. Roosevelt, without any cause, was called a drunkard. Wilson, as much as any man, suffered from stories grotesquely fabricated and of peculiarly unrestrained venom. Harding went through these filthy attacks before election. To the best of my knowledge, for every vote lost because of a whispering campaign directed against him, the candidate gained a little more than one vote...
...that year, John William attended the State Convention. It was decided to nominate him for Congress. John William agreed to accept, provided only that his father, then retired from the political arena, would not object. A telegram was dispatched to the elder Davis. Two telegrams came in reply. Both telegrams advised and admonished John William not to take the nomination. Both were pocketed by a wily politician, one Ignatius Brennan. John William was nominated by acclamation and accepted. Some time later he received his father's messages...
...main object of the Experts' Plan, as contained in their reports, is to substitute business methods for military methods in collecting payments of reparations from Germany-virtually a modification of the Versailles Treaty...
...British Legation in Naples and dazzling centre of its brilliance, to be the intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
...Chairman: The gentleman from Florida, Mr. Bryan, asks unanimous consent that he be permitted to explain his vote. Is there .objection? [Cries: 'Objection.' 'I object, I object!' 'No, no, no!'] The Chair hears none. Mr. Bryan will come to the platform. [Cheers and applause, mingled with hisses and booes...