Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally Rand's husband of four months, Rodeo Performer Thurkel Greenough, joined the Army. Object: the cavalry...
...banks must sell some of their bonds, and thus the government does not make any money at all. The trend away from large bonds towards stamps, in addition to indicating a more systematic buying plan, also shows that current income is being used, which is the government's object of issuing the bonds...
...journalistic ancients are trying a rejuvenation method which, before war's end, many a newspaper may try. The method is also calculated to cut costs-but both of them claim that cost-cutting is not their object. Last week the New York Post, oldest in Manhattan (founded 1801), turned tabloid. And Denver's Rocky Mountain News announced that it would make the same change this week...
...scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
...about the same time that Kaltenborn rolled out these exhortations, he and some of his fellow commentators got together at Manhattan's Harvard Club to form the Association of Radio News Analysts. President: Kaltenborn. Vice Presidents: Elmer Davis, Raymond Gram Swing. One object: "To establish and maintain a code of ethics which shall govern their professional conduct...