Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Neutrality Act, which expires Feb. 29 unless Congress makes up its dubious mind to pass a new one, anyone in the U. S. who sells arms, ammunition or implements of war to any foreign country must get a license from the State Department. Object of the law is to keep Secretary Hull informed of the operations of U. S. "Dealers of Death." Incidental effect of the law is to make Secretary Hull aware of the Buyers of Death. Last week he issued a summary of U. S. armament exports for January revealing the nations that spent...
Reasons given by the New York paper for national hostility to an amendment were: voters object that regulation would seriously discourage business; voters charge that the A. A. A. and N. R. A. have proved the government a poor administrator...
...TIME, Jan. 27), and with Britain's authorization to Germany to violate the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) and construct a major Nazi Fleet. Last week, since neither Germany nor Japan was sitting in at the London Conference, its proceedings were illusory. The object was to agree solemnly upon something of a high sounding nature which would permit the delegates to adjourn without too great an appearance of frustration. For this purpose the plan of Lord Monsell showed promise. It was gravely adopted "as a basis for discussion...
...served as a Junior Lieutenant in the Navy during the War, has sailed square riggers to Alaska, lost his money in a tuna fishing com pany off Southern California and has al ready had one yacht built in China. Last winter he served as captain of another expedition, whose object was to dig up treasure supposedly buried near the island of Dominica by a political opponent of the late President Gomez of Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder; the whole party was towed back to safety by the U. S. Coast Guard. Then Kilkenny sold...
...squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push him out of the circular 12-ft. dirt ring. Since this usually takes less than...