Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition Bureau in a broad plan for teaching school children throughout the land "the facts of Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
More interesting was the statement in economist Rudolf Martin's financial compendium, just published in Berlin, that Wilhelm of Doorn is still the richest of all Germans, credited with $152,000,000 in capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
...this money produces an income of only $500,000 a year. The estates are entailed, they cannot be sold. The palaces and jewels produce no income. When income taxes on the cash fund and land taxes on the million acres are paid, a half-million dollars is all that is left. Most important of all this half-million belongs to the ex-Kaiser only as head of the House of Hohenzollern. There are 49 members dependent on the fund, none of whom is willing to give up his share. That leaves some $10,000 per annum for each of them...
...Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...
...made, probably to his own amazement, a lot of money in Sex. . . . It is a profitable 'racket...