Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week few people east of the Continental Divide knew or cared that such a trip was about to take place, but on the Pacific Coast it was an object of interest. Reason for the free ride was that last summer Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed a bill for the Treasury to pay the transportation back to his native land of any Filipino who would accept. A backer of this law was Pacific Coast Labor, which saw in the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth a good excuse for inviting Filipino workers to go home rather than stay...
...Primary object of the Power Conferences is to discuss the problems relating to the sources and utilization of power throughout the world...
Rumors of their relationship preceded them. When they stopped in Dresden, an Englishwoman there wrote: "Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming and vain. Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well-shaped. Her bones are large and she is exceedingly embonpoint." In England the mob shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with...
...years ago spectacled Laurence Greene, Baltimore Sun copyreader, began rummaging about in old U. S. newspaper files. His object: to assemble "the sort of scrapbook an inveterate reader of newspapers who lived in three centuries might have compiled." In burrowing his way from 1690, when the first U. S. newspaper was published, to the War, Laurence Greene's greatest difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic...
...support of the Congressional resolution ordering the investigation was the fact that the Bell System had hitherto been entirely overlooked as a subject for a high-powered New Deal inquiry. That omission was in itself an extraordinary tribute to the company's management, for a more likely object for Congressional scrutiny could hardly be imagined...