Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caldwell. The latter was the promoter who had undertaken to finance the expansion of the Lea papers as only one of his many empire-building schemes. Col. Lea remained the publisher-politician who had little or nothing to do with the other Caldwell structures which toppled into economic ruin last November...
Publisher Gannett's Dry convictions he accounted for in an article written last September for Editor High's Christian Herald. As a youngster he worked his way through high school as barkeep's assistant in a hotel. ". . . After watching booze ruin men, I made up my mind that if I ever got a chance, I would fight it . . . [now] I think that the eighteenth amendment is an asset to the folks who read our papers...
...promoter. Last November Lea-Caldwell enterprises, which were beginning to take the whole South for their province, went crashing down into the dust of Depression (TIME, Nov. 24). Last week it seemed likely that their financial crash would rock Governor Horton, their friend and ally, down into political ruin...
With pride the Farm Board pointed to the fact that its stabilization had held U. S. wheat prices about 20? per bu. above the world level, had saved many a bank and business in the wheat belt from ruin...
...every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel and inhuman they show themselves to be. Evidence for this is the ghastly destruction and ruin with which they have laid waste immense tracts of Eastern Europe and Asia, while their antagonism and open hostility to Holy Church and to God himself are, alas, but too well known and proved by their deeds...