Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling out" China to Japan little by little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...
...economic system is the problem of technological unemployment, which has been present since the industrial revolution. So-called "normal" unemployment, says Corey, has been a necessity for capitalism, providing a reserve of labor for new undertakings, serving as a club to beat down wages which are always threatening to destroy profits. But with the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion," with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey's charts and figures the increasingly unequal distribution...
...Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send fake messages to foil the enemy. Once he wired to his disgruntled pursuer: "Good morning, Jerry! This telegraph is a great institution. You should destroy it as it keeps me too well posted...
Whom the Gods Destroy (Columbia). When Producer John Forrester (Walter Connolly) finds himself off the coast of Newfoundland on the deck of a sinking ocean liner, he removes his lifebelt and gives it to another passenger. A moment later, acting on a frantic impulse, he undoes his heroism by wrapping himself in a lady's coat, hopping into a lifeboat which lands him safely in a fishing village. When he gets back to New York several months later, John Forrester finds himself mourned as a dead hero. He realizes that if he makes it known that he is still alive...
Written by hulking, mild-mannered Albert Payson Terhune, whose dog stories have been so successful that he has never had much chance to write anything else, Whom the Gods Destroy is ideal cinema material: sad, intelligent, dramatic and improving. Handsomely photographed and directed by Walter Lang in such a way as to extract the last tear from every situation, its importance as a picture is that it may launch Walter Connolly as a U. S. Emil Jannings...