Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Object of this, the largest conversion campaign in British history, is to keep taxes down and the budget balanced by saving the British Treasury $100,000,000 a year in interest charges (TIME, July n). To get Britons to give up their 5% bonds for 3½% the Government undertook a tremendous financial operation. Short term money rates were reduced to startlingly low levels. Other outstanding 3½% bonds sold at 85 in early May while the new 3½% loan sells at 97, represents an immediate loss of 3% for all who converted...
Typical scene: Foster refusing at first to surrender, "I wanna show the world that I don't like it. To show the world that 7 object to it. Do ya think that I wanna die? Ya think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every...
Notorious in New York is Sam Kaplan's rule over cinema theatres. He and 24 other officers of Local 306 are under criminal conspiracy indictments as the result of a rebellion by eight members who object to his methods. Local 306 has also been charged with operating the forbidden "permit system" whereby President Kap lan allows operators outside the union to work in return for 20% of their wages. His strongarm man, one Greenberg, has served a six-month jail sentence for as sault...
...unless the protester first pays 60% of the amount due; 2) State's Attorney Swanson began investigating the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers, looking for possible grand jury action; 3) County Attorney Hayden N. Bell rendered formal opinion that even though a taxpayers' association seeks a lawful object it is, within the meaning of the law, conspiring criminally...
...object of the society," wrote he, "is to strengthen the ties between Oxford and its old members. . . . There are many ways in which they can help her-with advice, with encouragement, with backing in the outside world, as well as with financial support. The university needs money, but she needs perhaps more the invigorating influence which comes from a keen and active body of old members...