Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced to be shot. He escapes from...
...South and the textile manufacturers of New England clasped hands over their common commodity, sought a common way out of their difficulties. Unanimously they agreed that the steady increase of foreign competition and the steady decrease of foreign and domestic markets for raw cotton and cotton goods spelled approaching ruin for both planters and millers. Unanimously they blamed most of their troubles on AAA's 4.2? a Ib. processing tax. And unanimously they set off for the White House to get a political pre-scription for King Cotton...
...addressed a consistory of cardinals in Vatican City this week (see p. 36), said in Latin: "We consider it would be a horrible crime, a foolish manifestation of wrath, if peoples again took arms one against the other to spill blood, brothers against brothers, so that destruction and ruin would be sown from the skies, on land and at sea. ... If anybody should commit this nefarious crime-and may the Almighty put far from us this sad forecast which we on our part believe will not come to pass-then we cannot help but appeal again to Almighty God with...
...become the wholly autonomous and independent Republic of the Philippines. Now only big worry of Philippine politicians is that they will not be able to get their declaration of independence modified, for businessmen agree that the loss of their duty-free U. S. markets may bring the islands economic ruin...
...governments look like pikers. The government is now spending an average of nearly three thousand dollars for each soldier killed or wounded in action--compared to less than 25 dollars in any wartime nation. Courageous leadership is absolutely necessary if the nation is to be saved from economic ruin and total loss of social consciousness...