Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking some of the "conservative" advisers in the Truman administration, his special target was Clinton Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture. Also under his fire were W. Averill Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, and John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury...
While results of the Service Fund drive were not completely tabulated, the campaign seemed certain to fall short by at least $9,000 of the $25,000 target. Even though further contributions were expected to dribble in to meet this exigency, the Council voted (1) to curtail sharply grants to charities, (2) to economize on projected Council work, and (3) to reduce the number of Harvard National Student Association delegates to the national convention at Madison, Wisconsin, next summer...
...other forward, Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner. Gabler, captain of the Freshman soccer team last fall, was a star bucket man at Exeter last fall, Pankey, from Montana, showed both heels as a cross country star this fall. His duties will be as a spitfire, close-to-target escort for his long range bombing teammates...
Since there is no Charles de Gaulle in Italy, the Reds needed an ostensible target, and they chose what they call the "neofascist aggressors," a term in which they include the beaten and disintegrating Qualunquists (Common Man Front) and the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is frankly fascist but small and weak. Actually the Communist target was the pro-Western, Christian Democratic Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist objective was to test the efficiency and self-control of the Government police...
...willingly continued to pay Petrillo's AFM $2,000,000 a year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other way of paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers or the union. Some record executives like to think that Petrillo is really after the broadcasters, and that the recording ban is only a bluff...