Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rock-ribbed gold standard man but he also hates credit inflation of every sort. "The purchase of a motor car on credit," said he in prosperous 1929, "has become the greatest danger to society. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination to farmers as the motor car evil...
...Munthe sent $18,000 to King Gustaf "as a first instalment," asked that the money be spent to keep Swedish Lapland safe for Swedish Lapps. "Above all, Your Majesty," wrote Donor Munthe, "do not force upon Laplanders the evil eye of obtrusive tourists or the doubtful blessings of civilization...
...Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels. Though such stout proration-ists as President Charles Bismark Ames of American Petroleum Institute insisted that the Supreme Court decision does not impair the power of states to regulate production, most of the industry saw evil days ahead. Governor Sterling reluctantly demobilized his little army, declaring: "Serious trouble is threatened in many quarters. . . . Prospects are that if disorderly production increases at its present rate without State Governmental intervention, it soon will lead to disaster." Admitting no defeat, he promptly had his Railroad Commission order all production...
...island for one member to die. Five men are murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...
...good can come of smuggling the German memorial into the Harvard Church. The memorial ought to represent the conviction that the War was the result of something radically evil in the spirit and actions of the whole world and that therefore the Allied cause cannot rightly be exalted. It ought also to help to crystallize the conviction in the University that the 1914 principles of international action must be rejected. In order that the memorial may serve this purpose, there ought to be a formal expression of the reasons for placing of the German names in the Harvard Memorial Church...