Word: harmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Postwar planners seem to be unanimous in wanting to assure the Japanese people that we meditate no harm to their God-Emperor. It is doubtless true that Hirohito is personally an inoffensive little man, and that he had little or nothing to do with the present Japanese program of conquest.* But the program is being pushed in his name and that of his house, and it would seem that the Japanese people are thoroughly sold on the idea of his divinity, and of their duty to bring all people under his rule...
...being written about the 'menace' of the comics. Unfortunately a distinction is not always drawn between comic magazines and the comics of the daily papers. In [my] opinion, most of the latter are quite harmless. ... [I doubt] that the reading of [newspaper] comics would do any serious harm to a child's vocabulary attainments. Most of the words used would, in fact, tend to help him build vocabulary meanings. . . . We need to be much more concerned about the total effect of the comics on the attitudes and ethical concepts of children. . . . Comics are a part...
...warfare dictates otherwise for the time. But should your honorable committee look unfavorably upon these bills before you today, then I assure you that my country and my people will not be able to understand. It will be a great blow to our morale in China and do irreparable harm to the Allied cause...
...newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose articles have appeared in FORTUNE. Peripheral victim: the National Resources Planning Board...
...Moulton does his most important job on the now well-known theory that home-owned public debt can do no harm because, unlike private debt, it is owed by the people to themselves and merely recirculates money within the economic system. He points out that those who pay taxes to support the debt are not identical with those who receive 1) the interest on the debt, 2) the government bounties which the debt makes possible. Moreover, he asks, if Federal debt merely recirculates money, cannot the same be said under like circumstances of state debt? of municipal debt? of corporation...