Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Finance who had challenged first and, having the choice of weapons, picked pistols. Over 100 Argentineans, mostly prominent, watched. Hoary Senator de la Torre, his grey beard whipped by the winter breeze, drew himself up and fired into the air. Minister of Finance Pinedo, after taking careful aim, squeezed the trigger, missed...
...build dams for purposes of improving navigation, supplying needs of national defense. Power created by the dams is Government property and may, ruled the Court, be disposed of as freely as any other Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus sales but is primarily engaged in forcing down private rates by "yardstick" competition. The four words: "Its motives are immaterial." Businessmen were scratching their heads last week over this Court puzzler: "Of course, it is true that the U. S. Government cannot engage at will in private business...
This dual aim to inform readers solemnly on the problem of crime & punishment, and at the same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal...
...Soviet State has drifted from its proletarian moorings further appeared last week when Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was quoted as defending the present employment of most Russians on a piecework basis: "The chief aim of Socialism is to raise the productivity of labor...
ASCAP's chief lawyer is smart Nathan Burkan, friend of the late Victor Herbert, who founded the Society in 1914. Herbert's aim was to prevent song-pirating in theatres and restaurants. Most songwriters he knew were too indigent or too careless to look out for their own pocketbooks. A big organization was needed to bargain, do the necessary detective work. When Radio appeared and popular sheet-music sales suddenly slumped some 75%, ASCAP was ready for action...