Word: intents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...
...National City Co. Its advertisement of the bonds, he said, intended "to deceive the American public into the belief that the proceeds of these bonds were to be used to foster and finance the development of chemical and allied industries in the U. S. . . . whereas the real purpose and intent was to obtain $30,000,000 from American citizens with which to strengthen the I. G. Farben-industrie Aktiengesellschaft in Germany in competition with and in destruction of the American chemical industry...