Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours M. Daladier addressed the Chamber in language that impressed even the reporters. He charged that the Communists had plotted the general strike to shake him out of office, claimed he had police records and Communist manifestoes to prove it. "Its aim,'' M. Daladier said, ''was to bring about the resignation of the government through a popular demonstration. To do that the strike leaders did not hesitate to try to hold up the whole life of the country...
...illustrations, Mrs. McKelway got one of her ex-husband's colleagues, James Thurber, who himself looks some-what like a collie, with a strain of English sheep dog. His familiar, frustrated drawings aim less at anatomical correctness than at psychological accuracy...
This, however, does not spell failure. From the readiness of Harvard students to send an ambulance to Spain a year ago, it is apparent that an appeal to their pockets for what seems a more practical humanitarian aim will receive full response. But we think that the appeal will succeed without door-to-door canvassing. As the incident of the Spanish ambulance showed, such a procedure adds the distasteful angle of compulsion to what should be purely voluntary contributions. By prominent display money can be collected just as well in the dining halls and in classroom entries...
...High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together, but there are dissents within the whole. Last week one of these dissents popped to the surface when Vice Chairman Sidney Hillman called upon the delegates to adopt a new constitution which they had never seen...
...With the aim of bringing 20 fugitives from Nazi persecution to Cambridge in the near future, the committee is planning a drive to raise at least $25,000 from alumni and $10,000 from students and faculty. It is hoped that the University will provide tuition expenses...