Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as he was preparing to back down a little, news reached Japan that U. S. Brigadier General William Mitchell had said that a fleet of 50 U. S. dirigibles could destroy Japan in two days. Delighted, Japanese army men gravely agreed that it would not take the U. S. fleet even two days, given Japan's present air force. But the Japanese Press played the story down. It was too bold, too frightening...
...well. The Navy's aircraft carriers, said he, were "floating bombshells." The Shenandoah and Akron disasters were due to "gross stupidity" and "disgraceful" incompetence. For lighter-than-air craft in general he had the highest regard. Fifty dirigibles competently handled, he declared, would need only two days to destroy Japan, which he described as "our greatest enemy...
...keep government out of business he retorts: "The hard facts are that for years government has been in business, and business in government, to a point where it is impossible to untangle the mess." He defends crop destruction only as a necessary emergency expedient, declaring : "To have to destroy a growing crop is a shocking commentary on our civilization...
...believe that revolution has yet "swept the United States . . . there are some who are trying to bring it about." With real, unconsciously revolutionary passion he prophesies: "The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seeks to limit...
...retain the value that lies in the NRA. Not only has codification been excellent for large industries, but minimum and maximum hour legislation has great merit. The NRA should relieve itself of the tremendous meal which it has been unable to digest and should try to regulate competition, not destroy...