Word: intentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singh well knew that his amendment was only a "declaration of intent," from but one of the 44 nations in UNRRA. But he also knew that the U.S. was the biggest spender in UNRRA. And U.S. officials might choose not to ignore the will of the U.S. taxpayer...
...months Pennsylvania's Old Guard made no secret of its intent to scuttle Puddler Jim at the polls in the April party primary. The party's moneybags, Manufacturer Joe Grundy and Oilman Joe Pew, have a long-standing distaste for Puddler Jim. Only two years ago, 6-ft. Soldier Edward Martin and Puddler Jim were exhausting the vocabulary of political innuendo at each other in the race for Pennsylvania's Governorship. But last week Governor Martin had Puddler Jim over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced...
Charles Chaplin was indicted by a federal grand jury for two violations of the Mann Act. The comedian, who married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill last June, was charged with "causing to be transported Joan Berry ... by railway . . . with the intent and purpose of having the said woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin...
...Willkie is too liberal, are waiting to see how the bandwagons roll. Thus far they are less interested in nominating any particular candidate than in electing some candidate, and primarily interested in the political concessions which California and the other Western states can exact by their convention bargaining. So intent is Governor Warren on retaining this bargaining power that though denying he is either a candidate or anti-Willkie, he told a TIME correspondent last week that if Willkie should enter the California primary "I would indeed exert all my influence and all my effort against him." A few days...
...says Bell, think of the churches "as social clubs . . . smothered by respectability and enervated by timidity ... led chiefly by parsons more intent to please the congregations than to blurt out the disconcerting will of God . . . controlled ... by small-bore laymen fearful lest the Church blow ardently upon the latent fires of spiritual and moral revolution . . . impotent to prevent the war . . . [unable] to stand for prevention of a revengeful and dishonest peace...