Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when you stop spending." Appalled apparently by the universal belief that the administration is like a weather vane which voers to every zephyr from a brain truster, the President assured his audience that the Government "had hourly contact with every portion of the habitable globe." Such an OGPU should dispel all doubts that the fantastic gyrations of the Administration are the results of ignorance. On the whole, however, the speech had constructive implications from the long-term viewpoint, as the President is obviously passing from an idealistic to a realistic attitude...
...simple, direct statements of policy the President can dispel the doubts and fears which paralyze business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been...
...Riding into a crowd of massed students as they stood peacefully awaiting an opportunity to protest the welcoming of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" Boston's highly touted police force was on hand to dispel the crowd before any kind of demonstration could be staged. The necessity of maintaining law and order is acknowledged, but the manner in which it was done yesterday, even before the necessity for so doing arose, may be subject to the harshest criticism...
...fact that this extreme move was made necessary should dispel all illusions as to Italian autarchy. The Grain War, the reclamation of swamps, and the introduction of widespread electrification may have been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...
...ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...