Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House went Martin Dies, fuming with defiance. Out last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...
...Lewis in Atlantic City. Dubinsky and his fellow delegates from the International Ladies' Garment Work ers Union proposed a resolution giving the Executive Council of the Federation summary power to oust union officials guilty of corrupt practices or "moral turpitude." President Green throttled the idea, contending it would destroy the autonomy of unions. Dubinsky threatened to carry his resolution to the floor for a fight...
...sections which DeVoto has edited include Twain's onslaughts on Roosevelt I, his profoundly worried comments on the state of the nation, boyhood reminiscences (which seem curiously out of place), vitriolic sketches of famous people. Wrote Twain of Roosevelt I: "Mr. Roosevelt has done what he could to destroy the industries of the country, and they all stand now in a half-wrecked condition and waiting in an ague to see what he will do next. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War-but the vast mass of the nation...
...intention of this black-and-white presentation is oppressively obvious: to arouse us to protect all that the pastor stands for, to destroy the Antichrist Nazis and their depraved doctrines...
...lecture and text notes, would be held by the courts as a violation of the copyright laws. of the last power that stands between us and complete isolation in a fascist world. The more threat imposed by such a world can check the hopes of liberal democracy: could even destroy it as effectively as war itself...