Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia's James Waterhouse Angell, economist son of Yale's President James Rowland Angell: "The rising public debt and governmental inflation, which the process of pump-priming almost inevitably carries with it, are precisely the factors best calculated to destroy private confidence and to discourage private business recovery...
...years, in the Senior Marshal election and recount, any action which it may adopt tonight will shape its effectiveness as an influential student organization. If it should fall to adopt a decisive course, student government at Harvard may suffer a telling blew. To phrase the question simply, inaction will destroy its prestige while a courageous course will demonstrate that it is fulfilling its normal function...
Such actions destroy all logical and legalistic defense of lynching and reveal it as it is--the result of blind hatred and fear. The Civil War and the resulting Constitutional amendments were no solution of the racial problem. Calhoun, Yancey, and the other statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible...
...Nowadays the destructive power of science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...
...greatly reducing attendance. Adequate scholarships would help solve the problem, but these rest almost invariably upon endowments or private gifts and wouId be subject to the same malign influences already pointed out. Whether the social order in America can afford seriously to cripple these endowed institutions and possibly to destroy some of them should be conscientiously considered by the advocates of taxation methods the results of which are reasonably certain ultimately to undermine the vitality of the universities...