Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hooton 's view of modern Germany: "[Germany] repeatedly threatens the ruin of Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that they are more easily possessed by devils than were the Gadarene swine...
...Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions. . . . Economic chaos and years of crushing depression are [war's] inevitable aftermath. . . . ultimately, no one can escape the ruin...
...sell arms." Quickly Clark and Vandenberg followed this line, insisting it would be unneutral now, with war under way, to revise U. S. law to favor one set of belligerents against another. It was obvious that one serious display of over-caginess on the President's part could ruin his chances of success...
Although the war in Europe has placed a burden upon the present college generation--especially upon the freshmen--we must not allow it to crush us to the earth. We must not permit the "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit to ruin our academic careers. A full liberal-arts education is still for the having if we desire it strongly enough. Most important of all, we must have widely educated men if civilization is to go on. In this military era, scholars as well as governments can and must be militant...
Before war came, Federal Reserve officers had convinced most big city bankers that they would ruin their banks by liquidating their Governments, which would really break the market. A good many other holders felt otherwise, decided to free their funds for more profitable war boom uses. By the end of the week, an estimated $350,000,000 of Federal Reserve money had been poured in to support the market and the average price for all Treasury bonds was over 5 points below their 1939 highs (an immense loss for Governments, which usually rise or fall by 32nds). But the market...