Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your July 10 issue, under National Affairs, you make reference to the President's having "singled out Felix Belair Jr., correspondent of the New York Times, for a special blast about big newspapers, whom he accused of wishing to see control of the money markets return to private hands." In parentheses you then add: "Next day the Times recalled editorially that in 1922, Franklin Roosevelt was president of United European Investors, Ltd., speculators in German marks...
Responsive to popular sentiment, it revised taxes against the President's will. Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President's monetary powers had he not been able to barter with enough venal Silver Senators. Weary of experiment, it harnessed TVA. But all these anti-Roosevelt actions were a gentle prelude to what came last week...
...Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...
...Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...
...City property was communal, money abolished, law-breaking punished with crucifixion. But Utopias under arms are even less durable than Utopias in peace. End of Spartacus' briefly brilliant career came when asthmatic, cynical Marcus Crassus propped up the tottering Roman republic for a few more years by crushing the rebellion. Crassus celebrated his triumphal return by crucifying 6,000 of his captives along the Appian...