Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Magnin, philosophical, poetic, middle-aged French commander of the air force, harassed by conflicts among rival political parties, fights despite his fear that the discipline of the army may destroy the freedom he is fighting to preserve...
Charging that Plan E is an un-American attempt to destroy democratic government and is fostered by the "Brattle Street minority" and "learned intellectuals" at Harvard, five speakers demanded that Cambridge voters quash the proposal for a city manager at the election next Tuesday...
Secretary Hull is not blind to the forces which would destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
Scorched Canton. The famed "Scorched Earth Policy" of Generalissimo Chiang, to destroy everything of value in Chinese cities likely to be taken by the Japanese, reached its spectacular climax last week at Canton. Dynamite charges carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter...
Urbane, soft-spoken Mr. Hathaway, debatably declaring that "tens of thousands of Catholics have already accepted the outstretched hand," said: "We urge a broad democratic front of Communists, Socialists, trade unionists, of Catholics, Protestants and others to resist and ultimately destroy the Fascist barbarism...