Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fast women and slow ponies are known to have wrought ruin on many a man. In Illinois last week, nimble-fingered men and a deck of cards brought disgrace to a woman. The woman is Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, longtime supporter of Senator Deneen, who got her the job of collector of Internal Revenue for the district of northern Illinois. The story of how she happened to lose $207,000 in paper profits at a Springfield faro game, plus $50,000 in cash loaned her by Edward R. Litsinger, also a Deneenman and member of the Cook County Board...
What no oilman likes to contemplate was in progress last week. In Rusk County, eastern Texas, a new, lively oil boom was in full swing. Sober men gravely predicted that the field may turn out to be second only to prodigious Kettleman, may ruin the delicately balanced price situation...
...from his famed, barbaric father Old Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928) set himself up last week in Peiping (once Peking), prepared to reside there permanently as Governor of the North. If one of his subordinates in Manchuria does not seize that rich land and ruin Marshal Chang, he will be most lucky...
Birth Control. Especially did His Holiness inveigh against birth control: "The Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...
Better than anyone else the Commander-in-Chief knew how near he and his country were to defeat and ruin every day, every hour. . Enemies of "Papa" Joffre say with cutting sarcasm that, "his greatest attribute as a commander was calm." Calmly he flung this division to certain death, calmly he learned that another had broken through, calmly he received the best news and the worst. Whenever the panicky politicians in Paris telephoned him, the sound of his voice and what he said was always reassuring. It is for that that "the people" are still grateful. They feel that without...