Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present trend. A curious combination of economic dependence with political and social dissatisfaction has given rise to a most difficult situation, which such forces as the Ku Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell...
...object of the Turks in ratifying the concessions to Admiral Chester is so diaphanous that they can hardly be credited with their usual clever cunning. The Allies and the United States are hardly likely to fall out about these concessions, which, after all, are not so conflicting as the press makes out, when the International Court is ready to settle the whole matter in a peaceable manner. The Turks forget that they and their diplomacy are well known all over the world and especially in Europe; thus, with everyone on the alert, the worst effect of their scheming will...
Herr Breitscheidt then suggested that Germany adopt the plan for payment of reparations put forward by M. Louis Barthou on behalf of France and M. Delacroix on behalf of Belgium, by which 35,000,000,000 gold marks were demanded. " What we object to in the plan," said he, " is the stipulation for the progressive evacuation of the Ruhr and its failure to reimburse Germany for the costs of maintaining the armies of occupation...
...argument in, favor of compulsory attendance, which is needed for these disciplinary reason. It is, in fact, the strongest argument that has been found. But the system is a rather large mule for such a small pack. The millenium will have to find a substitute. It is an object which, like the Mikado's, "we shall achieve in time...
...object of Congress in creating this office was to keep in its own hands the control of Federal expenditures. The result is that there is now an executive officer who is not controlled by the Chief Executive. Already there have been several clashes between Mr. McCarl and members of the Cabinet. The latest of these is with Secretary of the Navy Denby, over what is of itself a comparatively minor case...