Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts at isolation necessarily involve curtailment of our foreign trade activities, if not complete cessation of them. What will the American cotton farmer say when his markets are destroyed, when he sees prices skyrocketed outside the country while they crumble within? What will laborers say when wages fall and prices rise? Who elect our Congressmen, anyway? The more efficient our control of foreign commerce becomes, the greater the internal pressures which rise up behind those barriers to destroy them. The dream of isolation, upon which rests the arguments of keeping hands off, is sheer moonshine...
...before this Congress for action." Of the third (on which he indicated a special message would follow): "Capital is essential; reasonable earnings on capital are essential; but misuse of the powers of capital or selfish suspension of the employment of capital must be ended or the capitalistic system will destroy itself through its own abuses...
...more serious is the fact that this amendment is potentially very harmful; it would destroy the influence which a revitalized American foreign policy could wield. As Secretary Woodring recently said, "Let us keep ourselves in position to use our powerful influence . . . to uphold international good faith, decency, and order, in the knowledge that only in a world that respects these underlying principles can democracies survive...
...patronize this place." Mile Reif, vexed by this reflection on her art, applied for an injunction. Her application was heard by Justice Meier Steinbrink, at one time attorney for the Eagle. He held that the union, "not only misrepresented the situation but attempted by intimidation to injure or destroy the plaintiff's business," thereupon granted an injunction against the picketing...
Wishful thinking should not blind us to Japan's capacities. She may be expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come