Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most hopefully, there are very good reasons to believe that the intent to use our best weapons at once in meeting local Communist aggression-an intent made clear and plain to the Communists- would prevent such aggressions. If we foolishly allowed the Communists to be lieve that they could engage in aggression on their own timetable, in the place they choose, and with assurance they would meet only the type weapons they elect to employ, we would encourage local aggression everywhere...
Quarles's firm conclusion: Though much is spoken "of the uses of modern weapons in the prosecution of war . . . the most profitable use of modern arms is in making their readiness for employment and the intent to employ them so plain that no war occurs. To deter not only total war, but limited war as well, I believe we must make clear to all potential aggressors that we will resist aggression with our quality weapons from the outset. Any lesser posture of deterrence is an open invitation to aggression, and is less than our best effort to avert...
William Earl Fikes is a 30-year-old Alabama Negro under sentence of death for burglary with intent to rape the daughter of Selma, Ala.'s mayor in 1953. When Alabama's highest court upheld the decision, his lawyers brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that Fikes had been denied due process before and during his trial. After his arrest, they argued, Fikes had first been lodged in a local jail, then whisked away to a state prison, where he was held incommunicado for more than a week-during which state officers obtained...
...apprehension over the growing intensity of import restrictions in the U.S. It is our sincere desire that the American people take full cognizance of the fact that their every action, however slight or unpremeditated, casts an influence on all the free nations out of all proportion to their original intent...
...private luncheon in Milan with a group of Italian industrialists, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston extolled the advantages of listing their stocks on the Big Board, where they would have free access to the world's biggest financial market. One of the intent listeners was blue-eyed, blueblood Count Carlo Faina, 62, president of Italy's giant Montecatini Co. Last week the exchange made an announcement: about Feb. 15, provided SEC agrees, the New York Stock Exchange will list 20 million shares of Catini, as it is known in Europe, the first Italian stock...