Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sykes, are not, I affirm, those that bespeak for him the requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial poise...
...course, price control can be used as a weapon of monopoly. It has frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...
...first half of the century. . . . Spurious Bonapartism, taking its rise at the middle of this nineteenth century, will be the destiny of the second half of that century; and the Third Republic, which in due time will be its unhappy heir, will suffer from it. . . . You have destroyed the promise of '48, Louis, not only in France, but the world over; and you have destroyed a great deal more than that. . . . You are liberal-minded, and will destroy liberalism; for, as a professedly liberal emperor, smiling and amiable, you will establish yourself as a tyrant, in order to keep...
...unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement under fire should provide an estimate of their contributions. Bargaining for the honor of dashing in front of machine guns to destroy dangerous ammunition, Cooper boasts he ran the 220 in 22 see, at McGill. "Where is McGill?" replies Tone...
...Modern cemeteries, with sweeping lawns, mausoleums and columbaria with their noble statuary and architecture are as much a part of the community as the public art museum or library. Destroy them and the living will exist -no longer LIVE...