Word: objected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Philanthropist Rockefeller planned his charities as carefully as he planned his trust. His purpose was threefold: 1) to start object lessons in charity; 2) to start programs for others to carry on; 3) to start others giving by giving himself. But he was against setting up any charitable foundation "in perpetuity." Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time." With age John D. Sr. came to depend more & more on John D. Jr. to run his empire. He thought the young man did his job very well. But he ruthlessly curbed any tendency to spendthriftness...
Russia's other Balkan object is age-old: an exit from the Black Sea. Russia's only other outlets to the world are through Vladivostok, the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians...
...members of American university faculties who are sincerely opposed to the policies of our government with respect to foreign relations and national preparedness. There are some who believe that the totalitarian countries will leave us alone if we leave them alone. There are others who are ardent pacifists and object to the use of force even for the purpose of defending civilization against barbarism. We of the Harvard Group are convinced that these men are grievously mistaken in thinking that the freedom which they and we cherish can be preserved except by strengthening our own armed forces and by giving...
...shell at last," gleefully confided one British officer. But not yet was desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering in the shifting sands. He waited, strengthened his strung-out garrisons, brought up more water, dug new wells to replace those salted by the British in retiring. His object was to prepare Sidi Barráni as a base for his next thrust forward. As he did so, the British cracked at his vulnerable line of communication...
Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...