Word: objected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...object of the Nazis was to master the richer, more populous and comparatively more negotiable southern part of the country before help could reach the Norse. In this they early succeeded...
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...
...have read Howard Spring's novel of the same name in 1938 no doubt will feel, after seeing this picture, that it has failed to recapture the strength of the book. For Madeleine Carroll and Brian Aherne hardly go below the surface to create characters who could be the object or the source of any emotion. They pass ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove the fireless acting...
...usual question put to him by Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...