Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy event in its history since Soapmaker Samuel Fels gave $50,000 to its rat colony. The nourishing estate of the Institute is mainly due to its founder, Isaac Jones Wistar, a hard-bitten adventurer in his youth, a brigadier-general in the Civil War, a forthright and crusty capitalist in his old age. One of the general's great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died in 1905 he had given...
...Business has changed markedly in the last six weeks. To Business, however, there was encouragement in the rumor at week's end that he planned soon to announce plans for starting a nationwide housing program financed by private capital and that the plans would include naming an outstanding capitalist, someone like U. S. Steel's Edward Stettinius Jr. or General Electric's Gerard Swope, to head the drive...
...Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova, until last week director of the New Dawn perfume & face powder factory...
...poverty around her. This note was further impaired by Deanna herself. Our heroine was supposed to complete the contrast, playing the party of a starving musician's daughter, but she was evidently too young to realize that the role was a nasty thrust at the whole frame-work of Capitalist America, and so played the part of the well-fed child...
...social religion looking toward a "New World Order," although he admits that this interpretation is acceptable only to a minority of Christians: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Italy and Spain is openly allied with Fascism; the churches of the East are pietistic and making no effective challenge against capitalist imperialism, while the Church of England, if she faintly stirs in her sleep, is far from being awake...