Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a U.S. businessman, this made fine theory but not necessarily good practice. Living in unwelcome intimacy with Government controls, during the war they had found them often used ineptly, feared they might be used for ulterior political and other purposes. The question was still: will postwar controls be different...
Dahlberg's visions-which he outlined last week to the American Society of Planning Officials and hopes to repeat before a Senate Committee some weeks hence-have a utilitarian, ulterior purpose. He espouses a 24-hour work week because then people will spend more time at home. Then they will want a decent home. Result: millions of cheap new houses must be built...
...emigre government was not published by the Government in Exile. And the exile Government's lengthy replies to Soviet proposals probably took the form of arguments that Mihailovich was the actual leader of all anti-Axis forces in Yugoslavia, accusations that the Russians support the Partisans for ulterior motives. Pressed by journalists, the emigre officials admitted they had no idea where Mihailovich was, that he had been inactive for months while Partisans were doing almost all the fighting...
Rumbled California's Hiram Johnson: "The power of the Senate is very great. No wonder that certain persons want to see its power curtailed. . . . They wish it because they have some ulterior motive in preventing the exercise of the treaty-making power in the manner required by the Constitution." Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark said a friend told him it was common talk in the State Department that there was no intention of submitting a peace treaty to Congress at the end of the war but that arrangements would be concluded by executive agreements. Asserted Ohio...
...Poems: 1940 (Yardstick Press; $2.50) is selected by Oscar Williams with his eyes glued on his belief that "The poet is a man without a profit or any other kind of ulterior motive. He is free to tell the truth as he sees it, whether it is disaster or the resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling...