Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they believe, offer workers "an exceptional opportunity to organize as a fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party was asked to cooperate in the NRA consumer campaign, to canvass housewives to sign pledge cards. Party spokesmen replied that they were too busy "organizing the working masses under the act'' to divert...
...educated to use their leisure pleasantly. Sir Frederick believes that British Broadcasting Corp., a government licensed monopoly, will take charge of such education. Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, was altogether pessimistic on the subject. Science, argued he, should be curbed. It is producing new goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries" and stimulate the production of "derivative discoveries" which established concerns can use in their business. One method of control would be to force the price...
...human blood. To corroborate his evidence, a neighbor of the Lamsons testified that she had noticed heavy smoke coming from the fire, had smelled what she thought was burning flesh. The prosecutor alleged that Lamson had beaten his wife over the head with the pipe, then sought to destroy all evidence in the fire. Witnesses were called to testify that Lamson's domestic relations were discordant, that he had been attentive to one Sara M. Kelley, Sacramento divorcee. To the jury was shown a ghastly photograph, enlarged to life size, of Mrs. Lamson's corpse as found. Hearstpapers...
While Mrs. Travers and her husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
Third-Thou shalt not make Mammon thy god but neither shalt thou be unmindful of thy monetary system, lest it destroy thee...