Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrals, the U. S. had begun informal diplomatic conversations with neutral governments. He made it clear that these conversations involved no world plan for peace. But they were preliminary inquiries looking toward the establishment of a sound inter national economic system, a world-wide reduction of arms. Their chief aim: to provide economic stability after...
...Silvershirts had achieved their aim would you have become the leader of the Government...
...when Chairman Howard Ennes pounded his gavel, the weary delegates perked up. Not because they expected the speeches to be much fun, or because they thought the meeting would advance the A. Y. C.'s advertised aim: passage of the $500,000,000 Murray Youth Bill to establish a permanent Federal Youth Administration. They had come to see a sideshow. They had their eyes peeled for one Murray Plavner...
...many an Irishman believed differently. Barnes and Richards were members of the Irish Republican Army, which, on & off for more than a year, has carried on a campaign of terrorism in Great Britain. Their aim was to end the partition of Ireland and to join to independent, Catholic Eire the six counties of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland that still swear allegiance to the British Crown. To their compatriots, Peter Barnes and James Richards were far from ordinary criminals. They were Ireland's latest martyrs for whose death the hated British would some day pay in kind. Even as Barnes...
...almost as bad as the public utilities until the Air Mail Purge hit the industry in 1934. By the time that was over big holding companies like North American and United Aircraft & Transport had been forced to unscramble; their airline and manufacturing subsidiaries were summarily divorced. And one big aim of the CAA Act was to see that they stayed apart. Over inter locking directorates and stock controls CAA wields a dictator's power...