Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be necessary to ruin millions of people before the American attachment to capitalism could be broken. Some such thing has happened in Germany," asserted Walter Lippman before his third capacity audience in New Lecture Hall. The last in this series of Godkin lectures will be given this afternoon and the whole series on "The Method of Freedom" will appear in book form next week...
...founded another such company, called it Corporation Securities. Thus Samuel Insull entered on the great game of 1929, building towering corporate pyramids, buying and selling stock. He had been right so long the public thought he could never be wrong and so followed him blindly down the road to ruin. He built his tower of stock certificates so high that it cracked and crumbled. Bidding against Eaton. Insull's holding companies paid not only regular 1929 prices, but battle prices for the shares of his operating companies-$384 a share for Commonwealth Edison, $296 a share for Peoples...
...call a constitutional convention for the admission of Puerto Rico to the Union as the 49th State. The three opponents of the resolution were Liberals who demanded not Statehood but Independence. The argument for Statehood: it would insure peace and plenty. The argument against: it would mean economic ruin and degrade Puerto Rico's "national soul...
When Japan added Jehol Province to its Manchurian grab in 1932, it got one splendid old ruin with its haul-the 17th Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang...
...years. He installed Giulio Gatti-Casazza as manager in 1908. He brought Toscanini from Italy in 1908 and Arthur Bodanzky from his own home town in Mannheim in 1915. He spent nearly $2,000,000 buying out Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company when it threatened to ruin the Metropolitan in 1910. He stood ready to build a new opera house for the Metropolitan to seat 4,500, had already bought the land when the Met's Old Guard balked him in 1928. Never a phrasemaker, he had a naïve but sincere conception of his calling...