Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...happens that the letters TIME receives from readers are in about the Gallup proportion, 2-to-1 in favor of conscription. In talking of an army of 700,000 men without conscription the Senator apparently 1) includes the National Guard; 2) overlooks the fact that the primary object of conscription is not to raise a large standing army but to train 2,000,000 or more men for call in emergency...
...country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion...
...after the death of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook last week (TIME, Aug. 12), brown-bearded, twinkling-eyed, publicity-wise Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins went to Detroit to raise $100,000. Object: an expedition to "prove" Explorer Cook's much-disputed claim that he discovered the North Pole...
...Objections to the bill were soon heard. Loudest came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...