Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissions were created not merely to find facts but to formulate standards and impose duties which may go so far as to destroy a man's livelihood. Whatever jurists may say, to businessmen the imposition of duties is tantamount to adjudication of rights, while the writing or rules is legislation to all practical purposes. At the very least these functions are more than fact-finding...
Certainly the problem of deciding what measure of freedom to grant those who would destroy freedom is an exceedingly important issue even in an America well-grounded in the democratic tradition. Even, so the committee could have done the nation a great service, and its failure brings acutely into focus the need for public insistence on a higher standard of morality in political circles...
...Republican party has lost effectiveness because it has made the people believe that it is completely unresponsive to the problems which today plague millions. If it is ever to destroy that impression, the party must be rescued from the grip of hundred per cent "nay" voters like Luce. Republicans of this district can render a great service to their party, their district, and their country by electing to Congress a man like Eliot whose attitude permits him to grapple with the problems we all face, and whose ability gives some promise of a successful solution...
...There can be no doubt," Chapman said, "that the power to create, change and destroy municipal corporations is in the legislature." However, in the statues of Massachusetts there is a law with regard to the General Court's power over municipalities which declares that the "consent ... of a majority of the inhabitants of such town" is necessary...
...view has established itself as yet. The system displayed is offered as a basic suggestion to the architectural profession and the architectural schools of the country and as a report of one experience in teaching modern architecture. It can be seen that this is not a way to destroy the past for the sake of building something new in its place but a method that aims to utilize all experience gathered for a way out of the past and out of some of its difficulties...