Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers and Senators hurried into conference with President Roosevelt, emerged to announce that the President was entirely in sympathy with the cotton control program. Bellowed Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy." Next day he introduced a resolution which was passed by the Senate asking for an appropriation to "get to the bottom of this break...
...Einstein described the impact of Nazidom upon self-deceiving Jews thus: "A single political upheaval was sufficient to destroy all their illusions. In a single moment they lost all those insecure possessions whose acquisition was bought at the sacrifice of their inner dignity and their traditional historical individuality...
...concluding chapter he suggests three ways for America to destroy this threatening ogre. First, he favors the elimination of the Imposture of modernistic art. Second, he would give art students more thorough technical discipline, and lastly, he would educate the public to a sufficient level that it could "recognize and respond to a true creative...
...that the Liberal Club has petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to vote down a bill which would make membership in the Communist Party a felony is welcome news. Not only does the bill violate the principle of free speech, but it would encourage the very activity it is intended to destroy...
...Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value, without requiring the artificial support of requirements. If the present rules did force uninterested students to gain a perfunctory knowledge of a classical language, their value would be doubtful; since they do not accomplish even this, they are indefensible...