Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is nothing to laugh at, you gallery people. You'd better go home and take your children and have family prayers and destroy that book...
Horace Liveright, Manhattan publisher, agreed to destroy the plates and remaining copies of Josephine, The Great Lover, found obscene by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. He explained that the book had not sold well enough to make it worth his while fighting its suppression...
Since in any country rich farmers are always the most conservative not to say reactionary class, it has been obvious from the first that they must be destroyed in Soviet Russia, but recently this has not seemed practical. "It is now," said Stalin with quiet menace last week. He launched into an argument which may be summarized thus: 1) Even two years ago the Government was largely dependent upon the kulak to produce what is called the "export surplus" of Russian grain. It is this surplus which the Government sells abroad, using the gold received in exchange to buy foreign...