Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Roosevelt New Dealers, who are loudly praised by Premier Blum on frequent public occasions, the present French coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical-Socialists take a confident view of themselves as much holier than Mammon, and Finance Minister Auriol has a habit of alternating blandishments and threats to thrifty Frenchmen who< are comfortably off. Only a few months ago M. Auriol tricked investors by bringing out a "baby bond issue" with gushing Socialist appeals to French proletarians to buy, then devalued the franc in which these bonds are repayable 40% (TIME, Oct. 5). By last week the upping...
...think we ought to let the neighbors know that if I hadn't given 'my notice' to Mammon, the number of words in this effusion would cost plenty. . . . I got the orders I've been asking...
...sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then, as if an assembly of priests and priestesses had come to some pagan ritual consecrated to Mammon, each took out a handful of pennies. scattered them before him on the table, scooped them in, made a cryptic notation, and sent them rolling and bouncing once again. Time and again the outlandish ceremony was repeated and the once silent hall echoed with the sounds of tiny thinking cymbals...
...poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and their savings into a cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before the crash came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need...
...come into the midst of this city, which, in the minds of most Americans, has consecrated itself to the worship of Wall Street," announced the political priest, "I come not to criticize or berate individuals. I come to lift my voice on the doorsteps of a modern Temple of Mammon only to condemn a system of private money control...