Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within their long lives, however, neither Francois de Wondol nor Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider has ever let drop a word to indicate that he sees any connection between his business and an eventual ruin of his capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...
...flaming Bolshevist, for he was later Finance Minister under Tardieu) to the effect that he, an artillery of the French Second Army had been expressly forbidden to bombard Briey when the chance existed, and when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost little of its significance in the long, loud, vicious debates and investigations which followed it: "I affirm that either by the fact of the international solidarity of the great metallurgy companies, or in order...
...Darrow let his well-known championship of the underdog and his socialistic tendencies ruin his chance to make a hole in one. He saw it was his opportunity to show that monopoly and big business were reigning supreme. It was too much for the old criminal lawyer and the result was an outburst of vituperation which would make even Mr. Hoover wince. While there is some cause for his claims, the prejudice used in presenting them makes them practically useless...
...since 1914. We need fewer monetary doctors, more hard work, and above all, no more panaceas. Winding up his 272-page warning, Author Warburg offers urbane but left-handed benediction to his onetime chief: "Whether the Roosevelt program leads us to recovery or chaos, to widespread prosperity or national ruin, let no one say that Roosevelt lacked the courage of his convictions. . . ." The Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born...
...spectator. The "International Revue," which begins with little girls dressed in shamrocks singing, strangely enough, "The Campbells are Coming," continues through a series of international scenes of varying merit ending up with a really good chorus doing a gypsy dance. The merry maestros of the Metropolitan however must needs ruin the effect by bringing out two gentlemen on tux pants and pajama tops to do a rather poor and conventionalized series of acrobatics. They are then followed in their efforts by a half hour with a company of Japanese jugglers, neither startlingly good nor remarkably poor. Still...