Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is more than frugal Iceland's na- tional debt). Moreover, neither France nor England has as many telephones per capita as Iceland. Amid such evidence of soundness and prosperity there was simply no proper reason, last week, why the Bank of Iceland should be on the brink of ruin ?except mismanagement...
...fertile of brain, thought up the scheme which he and Viscount Rother mere lay on British breakfast tables every morning as the sole panacea which can save the Empire from fiscal ruin (TIME, Dec. 2). Ingeniously they call it "Empire Free Trade" or "E. F. T.," because Englishmen are free traders by tradition. But their E. F. T. consists of two inseparable projects: first abolish tariffs among the lands of the British Empire; second, put a high tariff on anything entering the Empire from anywhere else. Plainly the scheme should be labeled "Empire Free Trade plus Imperial Tariffs...
Especially is this true of John Barrymore in "General Crack", now playing at the Fenway. If you like (1) John, or (2) melodrama, "General Crack" is likely to prove much more than satisfactory. A dislike of one or the other, if not too predominating, will not ruin all vestiges of pleasure...