Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy being Piltdown man. All he had between himself and starvation was a club. And what can you do with a club ? . . . He had a lot more to worry about than the question: What British author is going to write about Piltdown man? Nor do I believe he would object to a historical romance involving a pithecanthropus or two. But then he never heard of editors...
...reached into his wartime memories for an object lesson to the Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. He had once asked for a certain major general to be placed in command of a corps. He was told the man could not pass medical requirements. Replied General Eisenhower: "Please send this man right away quickly. It's his head and heart I want." Ike got his officer (who, although not identified by the President, was Troy Middleton), and he "fully met every expectation...
...conformists, the specialists, the pragmatists and the reconstructionalists are all wrong, says Hutchins. Education should be neither a means toward earning a living nor of promoting social reform. Education should be liberal, its object "to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." With such an education, a man can take part in the continuing Great Conversation, and himself seek the answer to the overwhelming question: "What is the nature and destiny...
With obvious relish, Truman denounced the Eisenhower Administration and all its works. "There are plenty of signs," said he, "of a return of that old philosophy that the object of government is to help big business . . . This Administration has raised interest rates all across the board. That may be to the benefit of the moneylenders, but it surely does hurt the rest of the people . . . Our great public-housing program, which was helping to clear America's slums, has been condemned to death. Funds for enforcement of the minimum-wage law, which protects the lowest-paid of our workers...
...running his division, Trustbuster Barnes plans to use a fresh legal approach. Object: less litigation, more results. In two new unspecified cases, Barnes says he will put drafts of Government complaints on the desks of prospective defendants, hopes thereby to "persuade" them to abandon their objectionable monopolistic practices before even getting into court. And in another case, also unnamed, Barnes expects to make antitrust history: within 60 days, the Government and the defendant hope to submit the case to a federal court on a mutually agreed statement of facts, thereby sparing both parties the tedious months and years of testimony...