Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." In fact, the full text of "Uncle Freddie's" report ended up by recommending speedy demobilization. But while the Democrats were getting to their feet to shout "I object," Prosecutor Dewey was attacking on another front...
...From South Carolina: "I would not object to a Yankee if he were kind of heart...
...campaigners thought their advertising would not offend the only big organization that might object - the Roman Catholic Church - because: 1) an intensified local campaign along the same lines had stirred no protests in the intensely Catholic New Orleans area; and 2) the advertising had been approved by an interdenominational advisory committee. But objections soon poured in from such conservative Catholic sources as the 50,000 New York State Knights of Columbus and the 51,000 New York and New Jersey Catholic War Veterans. Sample complaint: "We should seek to promote morality and clean living rather than the open and shameless...
Last week Bus Miller was back in the U.S. to become the blushing recipient of two more medals: gold stars in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Flying Cross, and a fourth Air Medal. Miller now wears ten decorations. His new assignment: a training job in San Diego. His one object in life is "to get this damn war over and get home to my children." He has five in Jacksonville...
What to call the new rank? Stimson generously left that up to Congress. "General of the Armies" is held sacred to ailing, 84-year-old John J. Pershing, for whom the title was created by special Act. "Marshal" is a title to which George Marshall might personally object. "Admiral of the Fleet" might do for a five-star sailor...