Word: objected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Forbade withdrawals or transfers of Danish and Norwegian gold stocks, cash balances, credits in the U. S. (see p. 79), except by permission of the Treasury Department. Object: to keep from Adolf Hitler 1) $20,000,000 in Export-Import Bank credits recently granted Denmark and Norway; 2) private moneys, credits and goods whose Scandinavian owners might be forced to disgorge to the Nazis...
Cochrane, who got the watch last June as a graduation present, was quick to commend the efficiency of the police in recovering such a small object within three days after he reported...
Last fortnight the Governor took steps to right himself. From a Mexican station, he announced that he was about to launch the weekly W. Lee O'Daniel News. Rate: 25? for a trial four months. Object: ". . . to get the full and complete truth and facts to the people by means of a new newspaper." Texas dailies and radio stations liberally reported his announcement, his pungent criticisms of publishers and station owners, his invitation to his listen ers to solicit subscriptions. Last week the first issue was published at Fort Worth...
...northern suburbs of Paris, meanwhile, police rounded up 19 factory workers charged with operating a Communist network for distributing subversive pamphlets. A decree law of Sept. 26 makes illegal "activity having the direct or indirect object of propagating the watchwords emanating from or relating to the Third International" of Moscow. Daily arrests of Communists are now the rule, and French police have made over 11,000 raids on suspects since break of war, have seized as much as two tons of Communist propaganda in a raid...
This early-morning hour is mainly of heavy music and light chatter. Chicago boosters object to Uncle Normie's occasional "It's a lousy day in Chicago"; school authorities to his occasional stormy-weather advice to mothers: "I wouldn't send the kids to school today. . . . Missing one day of school won't hurt 'em." Patriots stormed at his Washington's Birthday crack: "He never told a lie. And look where he is now." The bloomer people hit the ceiling last year when they found out his nonsensical "N.P. B.C. girls club" meant...