Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME gives away no military secrets. Its object is only to place in the hands of U. S. citizens facts that are already in the hands of potential enemies...
...after the death of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook last week (TIME, Aug. 12), brown-bearded, twinkling-eyed, publicity-wise Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins went to Detroit to raise $100,000. Object: an expedition to "prove" Explorer Cook's much-disputed claim that he discovered the North Pole...
...Objections to the bill were soon heard. Loudest came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...
...imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed by Mrs. Woodruff. Said she: "If the Leftists were to be restricted, where could we get our paper?" Said Mrs. Woodruff: "I would like to tell you the whole story frankly, but they told...