Word: destroyer
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...today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their power to manipulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their movement by the democracy of the American Republic...
...Finally we must make the laborer understand that he has an opportunity to improve his station. We must destroy the conviction now universally held by the laboring classes that 'hard work don't pay; it's only pull that gets the good jobs the only way to advance is to marry the boss's daughter...
Woodrow Wilson, of course, was a political accident. He obtained the Democratic nomination in consequence of the bitter conflict between the Bryan Democrats and the Ryan Democrats, and slipped into the White House because Theodore Roosevelt was determined to destroy William Howard Taft for the offense of insubordination. He has maintained himself not because of the love and affection in which he is held, but by the politicians of the Democratic Party, but by the sheer power of the most penetrating and dominant intellect ever known in the White House. When a venomous partisanship that could not deal with...
...fundamental rights and liberties of the American people are menaced today as they have never been menaced before. On the one hand radicalism is pushing its theories to the very verge of anarchy, and on the other hand conservatism has joined hands with Bourbonism to destroy liberty in order to maintain the extreme individualistic theory of property rights. Between these two greedy groups of fools and fanatics, there is a great middle ground which is held by the vast majority of Americans and which they will continue to hold under competent leadership, but competent leadership there must...
...must elect more than two courses it will be necessary to encroach either up on your breakfast hour with a ten o'clock, or your luncheon hour through a twelve or destroy your siesta with a 1.30. Such are the horrors of our modern civilization. Alas that the days are past when only three courses were given. Cocoanut Chasing 6bs, Day Dreaming 73; and Sleeping...