Word: destroyer
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...exempt from compulsion to serve a planned public interest. The essence of business in its free venture for profits is unregulated economy. Planning implies guidance to all business. To take away from business its freedom of venture and expansion, and to limit the profits it may make, is to destroy it as business and to make it something else...
White. Chattanooga, Tenn., is the home but Idaho, Oregon and Washington are the great strongholds of the Crusaders for Economic Liberty- whose shirts are white. (Estimated membership: 40,000; claimed: 200,000.) Their patriotic-economic program is to destroy the gold standard, repudiate the public debt, fight inflation. George W. Christians, commander-in-chief of the Crusaders, was very indignant six weeks ago when Dr. Wirt said that the Brain Trust regarded President Roosevelt as the Kerensky of the U. S. revolution. Christians loudly claimed credit for having told Mr. Roosevelt that very thing at Warm Springs three months before...
...drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time to he as careful to preserve the things that are good -- the family, religions, the economic inequality, individual liberty and individual initiation -- as well as the time to be just enough to destroy what to bad -- speculation, excessive and unjust, economic inequality, oppression, dishonesty, selfishness, unemployment, and profiteering. Without being influenced by destructive and either insincere or misled agitators, students today have a breathing space in which to meditate on their future action...
...declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...conflict momentarily with the views of one of its own high priests of industrial economics. Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, had declared in his book The New Capitalism published scarcely two months ago: "High prices, particularly if they are out of balance, tend to destroy the interchange of goods, and cause a starved flow of goods to consumers. Such prices destroy purchasing power, dry up demand, create unemployment, and lower the standard of living...