Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline ... But by 1900, the party was forced to choices. "Would it champion the cause of small business or would it go where the power and money were, with Big Business?" The party chose Big Business. When sharp division arose between employer and employee, says Webb, the party chose the employer...
...principle: "The forces of government were directed, not to the restoration of business alone, but toward the rehabilitation of the suffering and destitute of the entire nation . . . Having no public domain to give away and no other government assets, it would pay for all this by taking money away from those who had it, mainly from Republicans and Big Business, and giving it to those who needed...
...These two men, while fine artists, have been openly denounced in the press as being pro-Communist ... I deeply resent having any money from a community project in this town going into the hands of those unsympathetic to our democracy." Columnist Cassini phoned her and she read him the letter. He printed it. When the editor of the Greenwich Time saw Cassini's column, he also printed the letter. At the invitation of the Greenwich Kiwanis Club, Hester McCullough marched into a luncheon meeting and once again aired her views...
...Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...with quiet contempt. His political pliability sometimes leads him to weakness. Recently, the Socialists introduced a bill in the Bundestag providing cash Christmas gifts for refugees. A Christian Democrat spokesman pointed out that this was a purely political bill designed to win votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first on the alphabetical list, the Chancellor did not dare oppose the bill. He rose and weakly voted "/a." The other Christian Democrat deputies followed...