Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impairment" of assets, "confiscation" of property. On the New York Stock Exchange utility shares dropped one to four points. Calling the law "purely political," President James Francis Fogarty of conservative North American Co. threatened to take to the courts to protect his company's assets against "attempts to destroy them through punitive legislation." But most utilities were too confused last week to say precisely what they would do and when and how. Some talked of forcing the Government to take the initiative by deliberately refusing to obey the provisions of the act. Most logical time for such a test would...
...were limited to the first letters of the alphabet?" Herron (admitting he had mentioned using a "barrel of kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes." O'Brien (asked whether he had destroyed all his papers on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill) : "Yes, I set them aside." "Where?" "In the waste basket, Mr. Beach told me we had no further use for the papers." Beach (admitting that he had telephoned his underlings in 26 states, giving orders to destroy copies of telegrams to Congress...
...Dictator was invited by his plan priesthood to choose between three alternatives: 1) Abandon the metropolis altogether, establishing Russia's capital elsewhere and enshrining the more picturesque parts of Moscow as a permanent "Museum City." 2) Destroy the present city of Moscow and build a modernistic capital on its site. 3) Preserve the tall-towered Kremlin and fantastic St. Basil's Cathedral, but destroy the whole encircling rabbit warren of crooked streets; enlarge the vast Red Square to twice its present size, and generally turn Moscow into a city of wide boulevards, imposing squares and grandiose parks...
...Maman Savage took pupils in voice, French diction, dramatics. Today she lives with her beauteous, red-haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre...
...November, was excluded under the Tariff Act by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau after Mrs. Morgenthau had joined Government officials in inspecting it at a private showing (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week's trial in Manhattan was to determine whether Federal authorities had a right to confiscate and destroy the film. Said U. S. District Judge John C. Knox, charging the jury: "The standards of the forests of Africa differ from those of certain European countries...." A jury of bored business men watched a screening, deliberated 35 minutes, decided that Extase was too dirty for U. S. cinemaddicts...