Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...TIME gives away no military secrets. Its object is only to place in the hands of U. S. citizens facts that are already in the hands of potential enemies...
Italy's object in the far-flung bush battles of the war in East Africa is to bite off pieces of France's colonies in the north, gain control of Egypt and the Suez, and bite into Great Britain's holdings in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony...
...What? Reporter Racusin provided no real evidence that Nazi Westrick was a conspirator, probably for the reason that he isn't-his object is not small time spying but big-time propaganda among U. S. businessmen. But the "revelations" proved highly embarrassing for a number of people. One of those embarrassed was Captain Rieber, who had made the mistake of doing small favors for a Nazi propagandist who was an old friend. He saw the press in a hurry and declared that he did not like the idea of dictatorships, but that his company was in the oil business...
...imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed by Mrs. Woodruff. Said she: "If the Leftists were to be restricted, where could we get our paper?" Said Mrs. Woodruff: "I would like to tell you the whole story frankly, but they told...
...Trucks: . . . no bottlenecks. . . ." Big Bottle, Bigger Club. Honest Bill Knudsen's chief object last week was to arm the U. S. people with realistic information against overoptimism and undue disappointment, when they look into the sky and see no clouds of new warplanes...