Word: objected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Great Britain. Last month the U. S. Department of State sent Great Britain a "vigorous protest" against interference with mail carried from the U. S. on American or neutral ships. Last week Great Britain politely refused to yield. As long as the U. S. does not object to classifying money, securities or jewels as contraband, the British intimated that they would continue to examine mails bound for Germany to see if they contained anything valuable. The British did not mention that somehow the mail was censored while officers were looking through it for dollars and diamonds...
Last week, over Manhattan's WABC, the Grace Line turned radio sponsor to launch an installment plan-a twelve-day, $250 Caribbean cruise, including hotels & motor trips ashore, was offered for $25 down (before sailing time), the rest in ten monthly payments. Sailing: every Friday. Object: to entice the war-marooned U. S. cruise trade off the beach...
Next day a German Foreign Office spokesman tried to be jocular about it. "Germany won't object," he said, "if Britain sends Finland some old cannon from the Tower of London, or gives the Finns the same assistance she gave the Poles. But"-his voice hardened-"active assistance is another matter." Then Germany apparently began to realize how active, and how worldwide, outside assistance not only to Finland, but to Scandinavia in general, had become. Here was a new Spain. Help reported last week...
...Bauhaus had as its object the training of a new type of designer, combining imaginative design and technical proficiency. First located at Weimar, and later at Dessau, the school trained hundreds of students, and had a particularly important effect on the development of modern architecture...
...brief statement, but as the hearing neared its close the most persistent man in Wall Street plowed back to his favorite subject. Said he: "... I put my own ideas in the form of a memorandum which I would like very much to submit. . . ." Up rose Leon Henderson: "I object. ... I regard it as decidedly a disregardance of the orderly presentation of information. ... If it needs any stronger language I will be glad to offer...