Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some grotesque fable, it appeared last week that Hollywood was about to turn upon and destroy its greatest creation. That creation was Citizen Kane, the film which Orson Welles and his Mercury Players had spent more than a year talking and thinking about and 70 days shooting, with $750,000 of Radio-Keith-Orpheum's money...
Substantial objections, however, are raised to the cafeteria plan. It would tend to destroy Mr. Harkness' concept of a "Dinner table education" as the whole meal process would be speeded up with the result that the dining room would lose much of its social character. Trays on the tables, and boys carrying food back and forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal...
Leahy, one of Boston's most capable trial lawyers, at present confines himself to tearing down the prosecution's testimony. In cross-examining John V. Kimball, Bradford's star witness, of a mechanical engineering firm involved in the case, and former mayor of Malden, Leahy attempted to destroy his damaging evidence by forcing him to admit his own criminal involvement through paying any bribe...
...deadline: March 1. Last week, just before the deadline, the Department of Justice came to A. G. M. A.'s rescue. It announced that a Federal grand jury would investigate charges that Petrillo had conspired with radio chains and concert-booking agencies "in an attempt to destroy" A. G. M. A. Despite this apparent reprieve for A. G. M. A., one of its board members, Fiddler Albert Spalding, resigned at week's end, applied for membership in A. F. of M. He said he accepted the court decision, felt that A. F. of M. would treat him right...
Hitler's "New Order," like the burning religion of Islam, embodies a revolutionary idea, but it is a negative revolution seeking to destroy individual liberties, to destroy Christian religion, to destroy the spirit of democracy. Hitler's idea is an explosive idea, an expanding idea, an all-enveloping idea. Hitler and his followers have in their explosive idea the will to eliminate America as the strong symbol of an opposing idea. If England falls they will have the means also...