Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provides cattle dipping vats in regions which are infested with what is known as the "fever-tick." To prevent spread of the disease cattle-raisers are required to "dip" their stock. The penalty for failure to do so is arrest and a fine. In parts of the South cattlemen object to this regulation. Rounding up cattle to have them dipped is a nuisance. The stockmen also claim that some of their cattle are injured by plunging through the vats and others by swallowing the disinfectant...
...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
Finally, with two demands settled, and the others hanging in air, the conference adjourned for a week. The object of the adjournment was to permit the miners to attend the biennial convention of the District 1 union. At this convention the election of Capellini as President of that union is expected to be ratified. In that event, soon after the reassemblage of the conference at Atlantic City, Cappelini, most radical of all the miners' leaders, will automatically take a place on the subcommittee that bargains with the operators-and the conference will fight out the remaining issues...
...make a first-hand investigation. Mr. Breck and other Museum employees refuse to talk. And Robert W. DeForrest, President of the trustees, while not claiming infallibility for the Museum's treasures, has confidence in the judgment of the purchasing committee, composed of experts and collectors who scrutinize every object the Museum buys...
...Diplomatic Corps in Peking held a conference. The object was to ask the Chinese Foreign Office to provide a police force for the railways. The conferring diplomats held such widely divergent views that no representations are to be made to the Chinese Government. The main difficulty was that of finance-which was bound up in the creation of a police force. It appears that the Chinese were willing to form such a body, providing the necessary funds were taken out of the railway revenues. As the railway companies have already defaulted on foreign debts, this scheme was not acceptable...