Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater musicians out of work. Petrillo listened to radio broadcasts of recorded music as though he heard the rumble of doom. "Electric refrigerators put the iceman out of work," he screamed, "but the iceman didn't have to make them. The musician is being asked to destroy himself." In 1936, unabashed by the fact that he was simply the head of one local union, he announced that union musicians would no longer make records in Chicago. He also forced radio stations to hire standby workers-i.e., extra musicians they did not need...
...Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
Cover-Up. In Chicago, Herbert E. Rasmussen confessed that he had set a $125,000 fire-to destroy the evidence of a $16 burglary...
...nothing to do with the case at trial, Lipinski's prosecutor tried to prove him a Nazi collaborator. Lipinski was arrested by the Gestapo, and later released, because he had advised Polish underground General Bor-Komorowski against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...
...prophets such as Savonarola kept repeating that man is mere dust; but never before Copernicus did anyone suspect what out-of-the-way dust man was. When Copernicus squeezed the world into a ball and set it spinning through the blackness of outer space, he did much to destroy the importance of man in art as well as in the universe...