Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came as a crashing landslide to Labor. For the first time in history Labor candidates won all 42 seats on the London County Council. Throughout the country sweeping Labor gain: more than wiped out the losses that, in 1931, seemed to "destroy Labor...
When harassed Mr. MacDonald accepted the King's mandate to form a National Government, Lord Londonderry embarrassed the man who still claims to be a Socialist for the last time by declaring: "It is our duty to destroy the Socialist Party!" From that period on Lady Londonderry took a hand. Soon her husband was such a friend of the Prime Minister that he was appointed Secretary...
Strong but above all quick was the line he took when the National City Bank branches in Japan were threatened after a rumor that their managers were guilty of "photographic espionage" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), and when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew...
From the great West appeared John G. Brown, counsel for the Montana Bankers Association, with a dour warning: "When, today they can destroy a contract between man and man, tomorrow some theorist may destroy a solemn contract between man and woman...
...five students suspended were connected with the National Student League, and according to Dr. Ernest Moore, provost of the university, were guilty of attempting "to destroy the university by handing it over to an organized group of Communist students." Dr. Moore further charged that the quintet had attempted to maintain an open forum which had "inclined toward radicalism...