Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Germany has produced not one first-rate writer, painter or composer. Nazi Germany repudiated the works of such German artists as Heine, Liebermann and Mendelssohn. Nazi Germany bombed Rotterdam, London, Leningrad, many another treasure house of civilization. Yet fantastic Dr. Joseph Goebbels bleated last week : " The Americans destroy towns of the European Continent with their cultural institutions, of which there are no equals in Chicago or San Francisco. What they cannot buy of European art and culture shall become victim of their terror bomb ers They talk of culture and humanity, but we possess them and are today their...
Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...
Said Major General James H. Doolittle: "In simple terms, if you destroy what a man has and remove the possibility of his bringing more in, then in due course of time it becomes impossible for him to defend himself...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby: "There is absolutely no foundation of truth in the statement." Tough old War Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...
Their first task: to engage and destroy the enemy's supporting air force...