Word: objectore
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...even with the exclusion of Grocer Norris, the Republican senatorial contest remained freakish. Candidate of the Old Guard against Senator Norris was State Treasurer William M. Stebbins. Running also was Aaron Reed, 85, "sopping wet," white-bearded Madison lawyer who denounced Senator Norris as "the Great Objector, the stumbling block in the way of efficient legislation...
...Chief objector to the Hawley-Smoot bill was the motor industry whose enormous foreign trade speeds many a factory wheel. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., General Motors president, summed up the industry's basic argument thus: "The economic position of the U. S. has completely changed during the past two decades. We cannot sell unless we buy. Additional restrictions in the way of raising the height of the tariff wall are bound to have an adverse influence on our domestic prosperity through reducing our ability to produce. . . . The failure of the tariff bill would have a helpful influence...
Iowa's Representative Christian William Ramseyer stood out against the House majority as an objector to the Red hunt. Declared...
Says Author Meyer: at Camp Taylor the "yellowbacks" had to use the same latrine as the soldiers with venereal disease; though no physical violence was ever done to him, many of the religious objectors were beaten, tied to bars of cells, forced to stand in the sun till they collapsed. Religious objectors were of many creeds: Mennonites. Molokans, Christa-delphians, Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Quakers, members of the Church of God, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Apostolic Faith, International Bible Students, House of David. Says Author Meyer: though the U. S. Government dealt more humanely with pacifists than did any other nation...
...Figures quoted by Socialist Norman Thomas (The Conscientious Objector in America) as given by the War Department...