Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tycoon, yacht host to President Roosevelt, and socialite son of the late (Titanic) Colonel John Jacob Astor; by Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, 46, patroness of many a musical and philanthropic venture; in Cody, Wyo. Charging mental cruelty after 26 years of married life, Mrs. Astor testified: "Mr. Astor is intent on his business enterprises and we seldom see each other...
...Statesman & Nation took up the same cudgel, laid it on with a different intent. It hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far better than Lord Halifax that the French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords...
THROUGH THE HOUSE DOOR-Helen Hull-Coward-McCann ($2.50). The love of a good woman is sorely tried by the inner withdrawal of an almost blind husband and the importunities of a compelling man-about-town. The child makes it a quadrangle. Neither as intent nor as interesting as Miss Hull's Experiment (TIME, Feb. 5), but well above the slop level...
...purpose of liquidation; the new bank loan is therefore not long-term debt but a convenience yielding economies; 2) the proposed loan will be covered over three times by collateral of $14,914,024. Reason not given: Odium, whose liquidation of U. P. & L. is carrying out the intent of Section 11, deserves SEC expediting...
Walter Millis: "I believe what MacLeish said to be exactly true but easily misunderstood. Battleships are useless unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think...