Word: objectore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baldwin, who is now director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was a conscientious objector during the War and as such served a jail sentence. He is also an official of the American League Against War and Fascism...
...anyone carps at details, such as too covered a tone and often an exaggerated clipping of the syllables--faults that are begotten of over-emphasis on correct principles of chorus singing--the objector must be reminded that it is no small virtue to turn out so fine a performance of pieces as different as Allegri's "Misere" and the coronation scene chorus from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov...
...country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which he had been impersonating. Hector Lazo here brings up in suggestive and stimulating form, issues which may well be the most...
Congress received the message with a paean of approval. Most common Congressional comment was that the President had "portrayed exactly U. S. sentiment" -that is. he did not propose forgiving the debts. Only Democratic objector of consequence was Virginia's Senator Glass: "I have always been in favor of radical adjustment of the War Debts. We sold munitions of war to the Allies at unconscionable prices. It is asked that our Allies make 'substantial sacrifices to meet these debts.' Already the British bear a burden of taxation so great that a Congressman who suggested it in this...
Courts of law offered the seven against war a poor prospect of relief. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the case of a student objector suspended from the University of Maryland. Last week California's Supreme Court upheld the University of California's dismissal of two students who had found R. O. T. C. drill abhorrent...