Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That, precisely, was what Premier Sunila was trying to do last week by offering the public hardest liquor at cut rates. He hoped to undercut, ruin and drive out of Finland her entrenched and wealthy liquor smugglers...
...theatre and the cafe. He belonged to the generation which had been born under the shadow of Napoleon, and he felt deeply the sickness of that century which seemed like a long anticlimax to the Napoleonic wars. A later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred de Musset from Professor Morize...
...Speaker's management of the House continued to inflate the Garner-for-President boom. Texas Democrats endorsed him to a man. His name was put into the Georgia primary by proxy. Likewise in Nebraska and California his friends sought instructed convention delegates. Well aware that presidential politics could ruin his House rule and spoil his party's legislative record, Speaker Garner turned sternly away from all this commotion on his behalf. As a presidential possibility, though, he was approached last week by newsmen seeking his views on Prohibition. His reply: "You'll get nothing...
...Hitler's henchmen were the candidate, a defeat would not be fatal to the Nazi party. But with the leader himself standing for election, a failure at the polls could ruin the prestige of Hitler and dissolve his following into its original elements. The Nationalists may withdraw under their leader Hugenberg, and it is conceivable that many of the Nazis will return to their old loves, the Communist and Socialist parties...
...they charged, had brought Atlanta to "financial ruin and disrepute by permitting a wide open town...