Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hasn't since 1929. It is only natural that he should reach for such bromides as the share-the-Wealth plan or the Townsend plan. No amount of explaining that, for instance, the economic system cannot possibly raise such tremendous annual sums as Townsend offers the old duffers, will destroy for the average man the illusion that bread is being taken out of his mouth. He remains an ardent advocate of the plan in the expectation that he will have some day $200 a month himself...
Powermen feared the worst and they got it. No less than ten holding company heads sprang instanter to the industry's defense in a joint statement: "We do not believe that it is necessary to destroy these companies in order to prevent a recurrence of abuses, many of which have already been corrected. . . . We stand ready to cooperate...
...only alternative for business men would be to hold onto their stocks and other properties, thus only suffering the taxes on their income. But the first pinch would destroy them utterly...
...from Hanover, showing that the present system was not by any means perfect, but had no inherent defects, maintained that it could be remedied by a thorough public health program of education and legislation, which would not destroy the personal and adventurous element in the medical profession that had brought it to its present high standing...
Father Coughlin concluded his address by reciting as a prayer the 82nd Psalm, with interpolations. Excerpts: "Oh God . . . thy enemies have made a noise. . . . They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people. . . . They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, and let the name of Israel (America) be remembered no more. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant (League of Nations) against thee...