Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out in the rambling intricacy of testimony. Since Errett Lobban Cord had escaped the Committee's inquisition by going on a long yachting trip to the isles of Greece, the Committee seized as target for its questions Lucius Bass Manning, chargé d'affaires of Cord's motor, aviation and shipbuilding interests. Long ago Mr. Manning protested that it was just a happy coincidence when, the day after Mr. Cord announced acquisition of New York Shipbuilding Corp., that firm was awarded the biggest ($38,450,000) slice of the New Deal's naval contracts (TIME...
Another petition sponsored by the National Student League is making the rounds. The most recent target for the plentiful spleen of that belligerent organization is the appointment of Professor Corrado Gini to the Sociology Department...
Bowing to a slightly superior team of M.I.T. marksmen, the Harvard Rifle Club went down to a 1341-1257 defeat last night in the Tech Rifle Range. The encounter consisted of a three-position match in which the ten men on each team hit and missed the target from prone, kneeling, and standing positions...
Again, I repeat that I can see nothing in Professor Magoun's letter to make him such a target. He underwrote nothing. It is not be who I would charge with propaganda...
...horse, conversing with a German military observer about the future education of the Southern people. Even in anger his words were mild; when he heard that one Mrs. Stevens' house was being made a target for Northern guns while the lady was busily tending the wounded inside, he exclaimed: I wish these people would let Mrs. Stevens alone!" And when Hooker's beaten army had made a safe get away after Chancellorsville, Lee exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away...