Word: destroyer
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...irritating step in economic warfare which will tend to destroy friendly international relations. . . . It is an unwarranted invasion by the Government into the field of private business. . . . It is a return to the obsolete system of barter and involves discrimination and retaliation. . . . It is arbitrary and unfair. It nullifies our existing trade treaties. So protesting vigorously against it, I speak for 800,000 businessmen of the United States...
...dictatorship, with the militant opposition certain in Germany, spells revolution. But if Hitler pursues a conservative policy his shaky party may dissolve, and he will fall. The only hope of the Nazis is to discover a strong and skillful policy which will avert the destruction which threatens to destroy them...
Because the power to tax is the power to destroy, William Gibbs McAdoo, ardent Dry, last week urged the Senate to put a 100% levy on the profits of bootleggers and dope peddlers. In a letter to Senator Walsh of Montana, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury admitted it might not be possible to collect the full tax on such illegal incomes but he argued that "presently" the liquor wholesalers would be reached and their income "dried...
...intense is Louisiana partisanship that Governor Long dared not relinquish his State office to take his Senate seat lest his enemies seize and destroy his political organization. His hope was to continue his rule from Washington. Therefore, to be his successor at Baton Rouge he picked Oscar Kelly Allen, 49, red-faced, grey-haired chairman of the State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary...
...Suppression of Reparations would be equivalent to brutal repudiation of the Young Plan. . . . Repudiation of Lausanne will destroy all confidence in the possibility of recovery of the country to which treaties and agreements are scraps of paper...