Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Greeks and Americans tended to blame each other for the "situation," the truth was that both were faced with a very tough military and political problem: How to destroy an enemy when his base in a "neutral" country is immune from attack...
...over-all issue above and beyond objections to the individual referenda remains the fact that no industrial state has passed such bills. Passage of any of the referenda in Massachusetts would provide incentive to enemies of unions and collective bargaining all over the nation to renew their efforts to destroy by legislation these valuable democratic institutions . . . . Roy Gootenberg '49 Executive Committee, Harvard Liberal Union
Attacks have not been entirely from the outside, Jerry Voorhis, who stuck doggedly to his membership until 1943 continually banged away at excesses in the committee. When chief investigator J.B. Matthews charged that Communists were using consumers' organizations in an effort to destroy the venerable American institution of advertising, Voorhis promptly tagged the report as sheer opinion. It turned out that Matthews was carrying a personal grudge against certain consumers' groups, and was strangely short on facts to support his statements...
Most Frenchmen finally faced these choices last week, knowing, as one said, that they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head...
...Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...