Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Many a delegate had no objection to this aim, but they had many an objection to Harry Hopkins. Still, it was Hopkins or nothing. Some got drunk, some went home (one of these was Virginia's apple-cheeked apple grower, Senator Harry Flood Byrd). But most went around to Hopkins' headquarters, there meekly, glumly, sadly or rebelliously surrendered. Over their heads the shrewd, cool Secretary of Commerce held one awful threat: one false move out of the Convention and your only candidate won't run. Then where...
...Nation last week in calling the democratic-minded of all countries to arms. "There is no halfway house. Against the brute force of Hitler no mere material forces or military power will prevail. But against the idea for which Hitler stands . . . the revolutionary idea can prevail. . . . With that war aim as our strategy, the defense of this island takes on a new form. Britain becomes the rallying point of revolutionary forces all over Europe and beyond its frontiers. . . . The Nazi offensive against plutocracy is finished: the new German plutocrats stand suddenly on the defensive guarding their ill-gotten gains against...
Announced aim of A. Y. C. (attacked by the Dies Committee, spanked by Mr. Roosevelt, coddled by his wife) is to give Youth a chance to shoot its mouth off, draw attention to its problems. Chief concerns were unemployment, war and peace, civil liberties. Chief distraction was Communism, which has plagued A. Y. C. for long...
Founder Lenin held that the Communist state would have to exist for many years beside the capitalist states, and therefore that the U. S. S. R. should aim at peaceful co-existence as long as the capitalist countries did not impede or attack her. From the Communist point of view seek peaceful coexistence as a foreign policy while as a political policy the Communist International tried to under mine capitalist governments. That made the capitalist world mistrust everything Russian...
...offending the ginger-ale sponsors, NBC hedged the Chicago program with all kinds of restrictions. It forbade the Quiz Kids to maintain a permanent board of experts, banned the use of the word "unrehearsed" in connection with the show, tried to induce the Quiz Kids' directors to aim their scripts at children rather than adults...