Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aware that an adverse decision would boost the Federal debt about $10,000,000,000, would wipe out the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, would have a highly deflationary effect upon their program, New Dealers began to figure what to do. They considered: 1) enlarging the Court so that the President could pack it with new members favorable to his cause; 2) declaring a moratorium until a Constitutional Amendment could be adopted forbidding the Court to declare Federal laws unconstitutional, declaring it retroactive; 3) paying in gold as demanded and establishing a 60% tax to get back the excess...
Mathematics. Two great reasons has the Legion for demanding immediate payment of the Bonus: 1) it is going to be paid sooner or later anyhow and the Government may as well wipe out its debt now; 2) payment now will help recovery. Both reasons are highly susceptible to mathematics. The mathematics of the recovery argument is simple. The Legion has a table prepared by Congressman Patman of how much Bonus money would go into every state: New York, $221,000,000; Pennsylvania, $156,000,000; Illinois, $141,000,000; Missouri, $61,000,000; Georgia, $32,000,000; Maine...
...Armenians were a harmless folk but they were an alien body within the Turkish body politic and when the years of starvation and oppression following 1870 failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate the Armenians completely from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain...
...Nowadays the destructive power of science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...
...rules of the Spanish Royal House, could not marry her without first putting aside his rights to the Throne. In Mayfair the Londonderrys have long been supposed to be the most potent partisans in Britain of a Spanish restoration. Would they let their daughter make a marriage which would wipe out the last real pretender to Spain's Throne...