Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more vexed and vexing was the question of deferment for dependency. Last month in Washington Chairman Andrew May of the House Military Affairs Committee said that the intent of his committee was to defer men for dependency, not for marriage. Yet in Washington itself only seven or eight draft boards followed this principle, ordered draftees to service if their wives were selfsupporting. The other 17 or 18 held that homes should not be broken up in peacetime, deferred married men somewhat on the pattern ordered for the New York City boards. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Board...
...which in effect requested that publishers print no significant Navy news unless it was issued or approved by the Navy. Love feast rather than war council, the meeting consisted of polite queries from publishers, urbane answers from the Secretary of the Navy and William Knudsen, blandly disavowing any intent to enforce "a rigid news censorship...
...Washington observers were right, the Lend-Lease Bill last week took the shape in which it will finally pass. For all practical purposes, that shape was substantially unchanged from its original form. Amendments had been made by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but not one of them altered the intent of H.R. 1776. A total of 25 amendments had been proposed. Democratic committee members passed four, then reported out the bill which would put the disposal of all U. S. defense production in the hands of Franklin Roosevelt. The amendments: 1) The President must consult with the Chief of Staff...
Last week in the House of Commons socially-conscious M.P.s sharply attacked speculators for buying up great blocks of Blitzed real estate with intent to resell after the war at extortionate profits...
...morning last week Slangbanger Damon Runyon began his column: "Some folks are saying that the United States is already in the war, but we . . . have not seen a single patriot chasing a little bowlegged dachshund down the street with murderous intent,* and hamburger and Wiener Schnitzel are still on the menus. . . . We refuse to believe we are actually...