Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such tactics, albeit sensational, do not involve dangerous violations of civil rights. The real danger lies in the ability of one man to create, dominate and pervert a Congressional Committee the way john Rankin has. When a Congressman can subpoena an American for taking a vocal role in an election campaign, can cite this same man for contempt and force him to waste his and the government's time with a costly contempt suit, and can deprive the witness of counsel in the manner of the better Inquisitors, it is time Americans look closely to discover where the shoe fits...
...ascendancy did not astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...Jones was instrumental in the refusal of the loan, and Mr. Ickes saw to it that the power permit, and it requests were granted. But the plant that was actually built by this competitor was slightly better than microscopic compared to the one ALCOA had planned. How one could pervert incidents such as this into evidence showing that ALCOA refused to expand its facilities is difficult to imagine...
...trusted to keep the peace: one is a nation with small industrial resources, the other, a society with a will to peace." If the United States is to lead an international order based on freedom, it must be guided by that lesson. But the danger is that we can pervert our leadership, making our duty to enforce freedom a club of imperialism. If the First War generation has learned anything, it is a broader understanding of "the responsibilities of the victors." If the education which they have given us is to be of any value, it must enable...
...countries. In America it will increase confidence that Rossevelt's promises will mean more than the Fourteen Points in making the peace. Verbose and eloquent promises are easy to forget and to misinterpret--clear, factual agreements publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom of access to markets and raw materials open to nations large or small, political boundaries will...