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...Neither the cotton involved nor the warehouse receipts on it are instrumentalities of interstate commerce," cried Mr. Beck. "How would you draw a distinction?" demanded Justice Brandeis. "If the Government has the power to create an instrumentality, why hasn't it the power to say 'if you destroy or impair it, you will be punished...
...invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts declared one of the world's deadliest. He war offered $140,000 for the formula. In Switzerland he attended a Group house party, was "changed." God, said he, and last week the Manhattan Groupers, had guided him to destroy the plans for the incendiary bomb...
...plaintiffs had described him as a "hard trader" who threatened to flood the market with Chrysler cars at cut-rate prices unless the stock-holders moderated their demands. During the negotiations Mr. Hutchinson was quoted as having snapped: "I am not going to buy what I can and will destroy...
...these days should still cling to the idea that anyone who believes in the government guiding to some extent the economic processes of the nation must necessarily hate business and all business men, must think that no man who wants to make money is honest, must be out to destroy all private initiative and enterprise...
...fourteen of the farm population are to be "rehabilitated" with the Government again doing the underwriting. Should the program be successful, the once poverty-stricken farmers will be producing beyond the dreams of their forerunners with individualistic tendencies. This program alone, providing it were successful, would be enough to destroy the AAA lock, stock, and barrel. The conservation program and government services instructing the farmer how to grow more per unit of land are merely other cases in point...