Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
...Banion mob was wild. In a cavalcade of seven cars, led by Hymie Weiss they went openly to Cicero's Hawthorne Hotel, Capone's headquarters, sprayed the windows with Thompson submachine guns. Capone crouched out of harm...
...independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will combine for the immense task that will await...
...certainly did the Allies no harm when 61,000,000 German and Polish Catholics were told by their Supreme Ruler that "the idea which credits the State with unlimited authority" was abhorrent to him. "To consider the State as something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations," read the Encyclical. Again, the Pontiff wrote that the totalitarian system of government was an idea which "robs the law of nations of its foundation and vigor, leads to violation of others' rights and impedes agreement and peaceful...
...State: "To consider the State as something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations. . . . Before us stand out with painful clarity the dangers that will accrue to this and coming generations from the neglect or nonrecognition, the minimizing and the gradual abolition of rights peculiar to the family. . . . The stress of our times . . . and countless repercussions are tasted by none so bitterly as that noble little cell, the family...