Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same thing holds true of last week's offering "The World Changes." The pioneer mother warns her son that money only leads to ruin, not happiness, but he goes on with his cattle business, in which he rises to be the big Chicago packer. He lived to see his wealth make his wife hate him and go mad, turn his sons into rotten social parasites, who uniformly come to a bad end and produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which...
...imagination can Japanese commercial methods be considered fair!" cried a Conservative M. P. from Manchester. "State subsidies and depreciated currency are not legitimate factors in trade. They, together with the low standard of wages in Japan, and false labels on goods, are what are enabling that country to ruin this country. We do not want a fiscal war, but Great Britain is being mercilessly attacked and must defend itself while there is still something left to defend...
...Sunday broadcast Father Coughlin stuck by his Smith story, denounced the "Morgan interests," excoriated the "Tory Press," declared the U. S. must choose between "Roosevelt or Ruin." Speaking later of Monsignor Belford's apology he boasted: "John Raskob will be next and Al Smith after...
...tireless a traveler as Keyserling, "the travel-philosopher," Julius Meier-Graefe, 66, has nearly finished his journey. Along the road he has seen and called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than...
...first great victim of the crash, came out of the corporate ruin with a large sum of ready cash. He was paid $21,000.000 for his shares in Fox Film, Fox Theatres and for various minor considerations. Robbed or not, Mr. Fox stands as a prosperous victim...