Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book case. It belonged to the California girl's firstborn. Some 25 years ago (he does not remember exactly when) he married Mary Elliott Putnam. They have no children. His wife does not share his enthusiasm for them. Also, he says, having children of his own might destroy, by "paternal poisoning," his interest in all children...
...figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
Chancellor von Papen: "Reparations have become abhorrent. Experience excludes the possibility of recommencing payments. Reparations do not reconstruct, they destroy...
...battle cry of reaction. Declaring that "postWar German Governments have weakened the morale of the people by a system of State Socialism" including the dole, Chancellor von Papen declared that "this moral degeneration was enhanced by the class struggle with Bolshevism which, like a corroding poison, threatens to destroy our moral code...
...France had spent millions on its Aeropostale service which holds exclusive rights to enter various South American airports. Also it had exclusive right to use the Azores as a seaplane base when Aeropostale lines in Europe, Africa and South America should be linked by air. Now Italy wanted to destroy those advantages so that she might compete...