Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these frugal, property-owning New Englanders, the President spoke as a New Englander ("How much have we spent? Enough to get results"); as one Capitalist to another ("You and I are used to venturing capital to gain profits"). Repeatedly he called attention to New England's recovery and urged that prosperity of the whole U. S. was necessary to make New England prosperous-thereby apologizing for the fact that in proportion to the taxes it has paid New England has received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared...
Last week, campaigning through Penn sylvania and New Jersey, Nominee Colvin was not sure to what states he might still rush in a final effort to gain votes, but he hoped to make another 100 speeches, hoped on Election Day to be on the ballot in from 26 to 32 States. In 1932 Georgia's Willie Upshaw got 81,869 votes as the Prohibition Party's nominee for President...
...spirit interred in the bones of every "down-and-outer". Communistic advocates stubbornly insist that it is a desire for a Red government. That is the most serious of their many mistakes. The man is dissatisfied with his economic position in our type of industrial society. He wants to gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This is a far cry from the abolishment of Capitalism, Consequently, anyone who suppresses Communism in the United States does so, not out of fear, but rather...
...Jameson was against at right end on the A team. It looks as though he may be among the chosen eleven on Saturday. He has been playing regularly in the Friday Jayvee games to gain experience and Dick Harlow now considers that he is ready to take the battering of a Varsity clash. If he starts, four second year men will face the Tiger at the opening whistle: Green and Jameson at ends, Russell at center, and Wilson at quarter back...
...majority of our trusts show profit to original investors. One thousand dollars originally invested in every one of the eleven trusts we ever formed . . . an original total investment of $11,000, today would be worth over $11,750. Meanwhile investors have received over $3,000 in dividends, a gain, appreciation plus income, of about 35%." Since 1929, he declared, Bullock trusts have paid out a total of $22,000,000 in cash dividends...