Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...That President Roosevelt "was the first who gave expression to this hatred of Fascism," with a twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...
Last year an emissary of ex-King Zog of the Albanians approached Mr. Gade with the object of installing the King in the chateau. It was suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity...
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...