Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks failed in the Middle West, merchants in the districts affected, immediately sought to draw all their funds from the banks which still remained solvent, and this contagion for withdrawal spread throughout the country until moratoriums became unavoidable if whole areas were to be saved from financial ruin. New England is not one of those areas,--it is in better condition than any other part of the nation...
...German people should desert us, that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany...
...suggestion that the property of Yale University be taxed, President Angell has replied in a speech forecasting financial ruin for the institution if the demands of the municipal politicians are satisfied. To the natural question, why, in times like these, a university with an endowment of a hundred million should refuse to pay taxes, President Angell virtually answered that Yale untaxed is "a great historical spiritual force whose cultural benefits cannot be measured by any merely monetary standards." In the event of taxation, he predicted further, Yale may decline to the place of "a third-rate, purely local college...
...Ruin! 'Wreckage!" "I totally dissent from the quantitative theory of money. I do not think depreciation of the dollar would permanently raise commodity prices. On the contrary it would so deprave our currency that it would bring ruin, particularly to the wage earners of the country and those on fixed salaries...
...modern British cartoonist is cursed by tender regard for the sensitive feelings of his subjects almost to the ruin...