Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part of the object of Administrator Straus's speech was to push a bill (already passed by the Senate) to increase his loan fund by another $800,000,000, his grant-in-aid money by $45,000,000 more per year. If he could get that, Nathan Straus could be on his way to re-housing 400,000 families...
Walter Reuther's superior, President Roland Jay Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
This move, whose object was not to preserve the peace (which was already shot full of holes) but to preserve the peace system, was received by Sir John Simon, Britain's cold, cautious, legalistic Foreign Secretary, with a yawn. Britain answered that she would be satisfied if Japan reaffirmed her pledge to maintain the Open Door, a polite way of saying that she did not care whose throat...
Last fortnight, bothered by a heaviness in her belly at night, the old woman screwed up her courage to see Dr. Joseph Gilbert Israel, crack Detroit gynecologist. Dr. Israel palpated her abdomen, discovered a hard, round object like a baseball. His first astonished thought was that she, aged 66, was going to have a baby. But the object was too hard to be a living baby's head. Besides it was outside the womb...
Since 1927, when Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink scared the wits out of consumers in Your Money's Worth, courses in consumer education in U. S. high schools have multiplied like mosquitoes. Because the object of this propaganda is to persuade buyers to be skeptical of advertising and be guided by such agencies as the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Consumers Union, admen view this trend with alarm. Fortnight ago, at the annual convention of the Advertising Federation of America in Manhattan, they decided to do something about...