Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Census takers in Pittsburgh revealed that they had not completely succeeded in cataloguing Helen Clay Frick, 49, spinster daughter of the late Steel and Coke Tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Said she: "I am a Republican and a good American citizen. I don't object to the census. I answered every question except those which were not proper. They asked the value of my Pittsburgh home. That is a personal question. . . . They asked my education. That is a personal matter, it is none of their business...
...coxswains of the Yardling and Varsity crows have likewise found great causes for insomnia among the waterbugs, but the Crimson men have a little bit quicker reaction, and a great deal better appreciation of the purpose of the metal object on the stern of each shell, the rudder...
...suddenly become a mortal sin to get a high salary in industry. I ... object to being put in the public stocks and used for campaign material. For instance, a couple of years ago two members of the Cabinet* got on the radio and held Mr. Sloan [G. M.'s board chairman] and myself up as having received over $350,000 a year in salary and bonus-but they did not say that Government and charity had gotten 90% of this amount...
...good cash customer of the Government I object to being treated that way, and I was probably paying for part of that radio talk on top of it. ... This idea of having everybody get poor so nobody can get rich is not going to work in the long...
Said a Swedish official in rebuttal: "We know that some young members of the Navy have been Nazis, but they are being watched. . . . Admiral Lindsström is a Swede who will obey his King." With Norway as an object lesson, Sweden has at least had an opportunity to prepare against a Nazi Fifth Column...