Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curley will sweep the town today, hang up a mark for other candidates to aim at in the years to come, be hailed and proclaimed tomorrow as one of the leaders of his party in the East...
...regime whose members are pledged, through the Third International, to destruction of Capitalist regimes throughout the world. For tactical reasons Dictator Stalin has slowed up for the present the drive of the Third International for "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." He has not abandoned that great aim, pledges and repledges himself to it in addresses to the Russian people. But Britain, France and Italy, intent on nailing down the frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno, want Russia in the League. They brought tremendous pressure on all Europe's little dissenters, even pulled wires in Latin America...
...youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds...
...have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues of that sort. His real aim is to make Sterling the standard trading medium of the world, the king of currencies. Since the dollar abdicated all title to that regal role Mr. Chamberlain's task has been much eased. Last week the Canadian dollar was not pegged to Sterling as were the currencies...
...that these stories should have got him the name of "the English Jules Verne. As a matter of fact there is no literary resemblance whatever between the anticipatory inventions of the great Frenchman and these fantasies." Wells admits his stories are intended to be only temporarily plausible; "they aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." Surprisingly, he finds himself much more like Jonathan Swift, says "my early, profound and lifelong admiration for Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make...