Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns] ... it is the duty of the local union to support the temporary placing of workers on the job to avoid a general...
Further, the four distinct plots of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, which clog it plenty as a play, virtually wreck it as a musical. Helena, Hermia & Co. prove just as ghastly bores running loose in the wooded outskirts of New Orleans as in the Athenian groves. Nor are some of the headliners all they might be. Louis Armstrong should stick to his blast, not try to play Bottom. The Maxine Sullivan who sings Moonland is not the irresistible Maxine Sullivan of Loch Lomond...
...presses each year roll some 500 books, innumerable pamphlets and magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...
Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...
Sabotage (Republic) starts out right innocently as that folksy love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...