Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nittany, Pa., October 13:--Confucius! why was admirable foreknowing not apparent in abhorred paper last week stop Repetition will be ruin stop Must receive reply to satisfaction, enclose cash stop Here have peered at honorable opposition, will fix destiny tomorrow stop Occult art have been employed by Digest Poll to predict income, but money few and distant stop In blue funk stop Rose, felt ill this morning, atmosphere too warm for long stay stop Tomorrow will wish for weather more coolish, proceed to Tigerville to eat curry with laymen stop Will arrive Cambridge midnight, son I Fling accompanies stop Must...
Such were last week's battle cries in the Republican national campaign as it crept into its final month. All G. 0. Partisans were saying approximately the same thing: "Hoover saved the country from wrack and ruin; give him a chance to finish the job." Such a defensive drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...unthinkable that the Government should resort to the printing press and the issuance of fiat currency. Such an act of moral bankruptcy would depreciate and might ultimately destroy the value of every dollar in the United States. It would cause the collapse of all confidence and bring widespread ruin. Daniel Webster, 100 years ago, stated...
...Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph, all the railroads and last year all the shipping, of Italy. It was Count Ciano who arranged the mergers of Italy's greatest shipping lines, thereby saving from ruin not only the lines but also the big hanks which were heavily tied up in them. He it was who rushed to completion in record time the great Rex and Conte di Savoia at a period when Britain's Cunard Line was forced to abandon work...
...Frightened, they began selling, sent cotton lurching downward $5 a bale. Some of the loss was soon regained; cotton steadied at around 8? a Ib. Mills continued active. Cotton's gain from the June lows is still over 3? a Ib., enough to save many a farmer from ruin. Cottonmen last week were of the opinion that small as the 1932 crop may be the big 13,000,000 bale carryover from last year will be a heavy hand upon any further ballooning, that cotton's position is still precarious pending a greater call for new shirts...