Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Stassen got no cheers from Democrats, and he well knew that some members of his party would object on the ground that the G.O.P. should not help bail the Truman Administration out of its troubles. But Candidate Stassen, a determined contender for President in 1948, knew that the people were sick of hit-or-miss government, that his proposal would not fall entirely on deaf ears...
...Ultimate Step. Prosecutor Jackson defended this pragmatic approach on the pragmatic ground that the end justified the only practicable means. In the prosecution view, the object of Nurnberg was not merely to punish these particular offenders, but to evolve from their trials a body of effective international law against all aggressive war. Said Jackson...
...object of 74-year-old Cordell Hull's wrath was the Army Investigating Board's Pearl Harbor report (TIME, Sept. 10). The report, branding his note to the Japs on Nov. 26, 1941 as an "ultimatum," had gone on to say: "It was the document that touched the button that started the war, as Ambassador Grew so aptly expressed...
...Harvard moves slowly," he went on, "it's an old man. What I really object to is the fuss Harvard's made over this. It is not a landmark, or a milestone, or anything of the kind. But it's nice to have you trailing along with...
Somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, said a report current in Europe, a secret conference recently took place. In the chair was Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. Present were Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, Red Army occupation chief in Hungary, and a group of Soviet Ambassadors and Balkan experts. The object of the meeting was to reshape Soviet policy for the Balkans and eastern Europe. Reported decisions: i) the Red Army will be withdrawn by the end of next year and civilian control will be substituted; 2) Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria must be bound to the Soviet economy by stringent economic agreements; 3) nervous opposition...