Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tycoon Runciman: "I think we would be very foolish to copy exactly the fiscal policy of the United States of America. . . . Do not let us do here that which would impede the payments which we receive from abroad. ... In the United States that may not do them much harm. That is for them to decide, not us. ... We . . . must not altogether close down the means whereby these remittances reach here. I am expressing my own opinion and others may express theirs if they like...
...Business men in a depression of this sort think they would like a war as they could sell more wheat and other commodities and so do away with employment. This is no way out, and this attitude does much harm. They say today that America would make money, but they would repudiate these benefits if they themselves were in any way dangerously involved in war." We should not lend Japan money to carry on its war, the speaker added, in case we should have to go to war to save our loan, and thus become accomplices...
...remaining third" of the nation who are wondering which way to turn should be guided by their own best judgment. Prohibition in its present form cannot be enforced, and we can do no harm in adopting the constructive measures that the Crusaders advocate, in a true effort to better the situation--if not to solve this great problem completely. W. E. Putnam...
...Wiggin, questioned on this said. "I don't think so. A man only lives so many years and his experience only lasts with him so many years. New generations succeed and they will make the same blunders. ... I don't think an economic council would do any harm, but I don't think it would do much good...
...Democratic party which, if the unanimous precedents of history count at all, is bound to be swept into power as the party out of office in a time of depression. While it is manifestly unfair to hold the Republican party responsible for the depression, that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol...