Word: objectivity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...devoted chiefly to explanation of the court, and refutation of the arguments of the Court's opponents. Secretary Hoover set out to refute three classes of opponents of the Court: 1) Those who believe that the Court will lead us in to some "undescribed political entanglement." This objection, Mr. Hoover points out, is raised on ignorance, because there is absolutely no compulsory provision in the President's proposal. " We do not need to submit any case to the Court, unless we feel like doing so. ... No other nation can summon us into court. . . . The Court itself cannot summon...
...seems that there is no legal bar to the President's using the navy for enforcing prohibition laws. Navy officials, however, object to the use of line officers for such a purpose, so it is probable that if the plan is put into effect the rum chasers will be manned by petty officers and placed temporarily under the Coast Guard...
...visit to Jalalabad with his court, created a great sensation among his subjects. It was the first time that the Amir had visited this eastern city , and the people were curious to see the Afgan autocrat. They found him an industrious man, genial, active, simply dressed. The object of his visit is said to be to eradicate corruption from the public service...
William Jennings Bryan is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Miami, Fla. Several presbyteries have made overtures to the General Assembly requesting that Mr. Bryan be appointed Moderator of the Assembly, which meets in Indianapolis on May 17. The avowed object is to precipitate a clash between those who accept evolution, upholding Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and those who do not. The expressed object is to " exclude from the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church in New York a Baptist preacher [Dr. Fosdick] whose teaching is not in accordance with the Westminster Confession...
...conjecture market is still as lively as ever. Why were these gratuitous prophecies made so early and so positively? There is at least one plausible answer. Perhaps their object is to put a damper on insurgents within the Republican ranks. These rebels, attracted by the vigor of a Borah or the vote-swinging power of a Johnson, have been spreading sly stories about the President's discouragement over his work. They have bored from within, intending to scuttle the ship quietly when the time was ripe. They have imagined that they could persuade him of his unfitness for office...