Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professing to see a Catholic conspiracy to dominate the educational system by converting the six leading universities in this country to Catholicism, Elderkin claimed the attacks on Stace and the Religion Department were logical parts of the strategy. "Halton's ulterior motive is quite obvious," Elderkin said. "He wants to get a foot in the door to the Department of Religion and ultimately kick out all the Protestants behind it. The one and sufficient answer is that Catholicism does not tolerate Protestantism and would destroy it if possible...
...make this clear, beyond a possibility of doubt," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a speech in Dallas, "the United States has no ulterior purpose in desiring the independence of the satellite countries. Our unadulterated wish is that these peoples, from whom so much of our own national life derives, should have sovereignty restored to them, and that they should have governments of their own free choosing. We do not look upon these nations as potential military allies. We see them as friends and as part of a new and friendly and no longer divided Europe...
Gruenther was vague about his post-retirement future. "I have no personal plans and no ulterior motives," he said. "I have refrained religiously from looking for a job." Then, with a familiar flash, he added: "But I'm certainly not going to grow cauliflowers...
...objective of the individuals who initiated and carried out this chain of events was to influence by political contribution the vote of a member of the U.S. Senate. The Select Committee condemns such activity. Lobbying is proper; contributions are proper-but they must not be combined for an ulterior purpose. This is a case of irresponsibility run riot...
...Ulterior Motives. United Nations observers provisionally put the casualties at 41 Syrian dead, including a number of civilians who lived in a farming settlement in the combat zone. Cost to the Israelis: six dead, ten wounded...