Word: havoc
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...Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
...only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset by the havoc Nazis were playing with the traditions of the German Foreign Office, the Baron had determined to resign...
...situation, and I shall try to do it in a very helpful way. ... I am for the President of the U. S. and I am for my country. I do not want to discuss the provisions of the pending bill. I want to direct your attention, however, to the havoc which this bill is now working in the solidarity of the Nation. . . . There is not enough left in this controversy to justify the hurt and the danger of what we are doing. ... As soon as we take the lash from above the heads of these judges over there, some more...
...Under Adman Skinner, who made a $35,000 salary before he was 40 as advertising supervisor of all Hearst evening and Sunday newspapers, Prima's sales dropped swiftly to about 5,000 bbl. per month. Losses mounted and Prima was finally put into 776 reorganization. After contemplating the havoc caused by the Skinner policies, the Prima trustee decided to sue for damages. But instead of suing Mr. Skinner, the trustee sued the banks which had been responsible for Mr. Skinner...
...serious defect then appeared. The sudden load increase nearly overtaxed the Hackensack generators; it was evident that the votes of an audience several times bigger would have wrought havoc with the power plant. Moreover, the broadcasters could not help wondering how many lazy or indifferent listeners had simply not bothered to switch on a bulb, although they were listening to the program...