Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were for sale. The news flashed to London and traders sold dollars on the hunch that the U. S. dollar was once more on the road to perdition. It flashed to Shanghai and hundreds of Chinese who had sold silver short spent a frantic night in fear of ruin. It flashed to Nevada and hopeful miners began to talk of silver at $1.29 an oz., of opening new mines and such famed old ones as Virginia City and Leadville...
...year Albert Schmedeman is again running for Governor as a Democrat, "Bob" La Follette is up for re-election as a Progressive, and Brother "Phil" La Follette is angling for the Progressive nomination as Governor. Should the President endorse Senator La Follette's candidacy too ardently, it would probably ruin any Democratic chance of permanently regaining a lost State. On the other hand, should Mr. Roosevelt come out too hot and heavy for Governor Schmedeman and other party regulars, his good friend "Bob" La Follette might go down in defeat...
...than to give Japan major advantages over other great exporters to China. They cut certain rates so low that Chinese owners of cotton mills, paper mills, breweries, coal yards and fish markets declared last week they could no longer compete with Japanese prices in depreciated yen, were threatened with ruin. By every post petitions poured in upon the Generalissimo and he received irate telegrams night...
Faced with political ruin if they shouldered the responsibility of forcing Gaston Doumergue out, Mm. Tardieu and Herriot muttered a temporary grudging "Quits." Premier Doumergue kissed them both on the cheek and his Cabinet seemed safe until a vengeful party congress of Radical Socialists meets in October...
What many a labor sympathizer feared was that the general strike would ruin the cause of Labor in San Francisco for years to come. If the strike had gone on long enough to require martial law in the city and forceful suppression of the strike San Francisco's Labor Unions might have been crushed. But enduring bitterness against Labor had not yet been built up when the unions about-faced. The city rejoiced that Labor had admitted its mistake, had voluntarily changed front. Real loser by the general strike was Harry Bridges, who lost his ten weeks domination over...