Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard fund for the relief of the Chelsea sufferers has been supplemented by the Phillips Brooks House Association, which will today canvass the University for clothing, to be distributed to the many people who escaped from their homes destitute and penniless. Men who have not seen fit to contribute money to the Harvard fund may be willing and able to help the cause by handling over to the collectors any articles of old clothing that, if sold, will bring but a few dollars, and if kept, will only litter up the closets. Here is a chance to do inestimable good...
...CRIMSON'S request the Cambridge Trust Company has kindly agreed to receive contributions toward a fund to be known as the Harvard University Chelsea Relief Fund, and to forward the money subscribed to Lee, Higginson & Co., treasurers of the general fund. The fearful destitution of the thousands of homeless people demands an instant response, and Harvard should not be behind in the philanthropic patriotism of Greater Boston. Officers and students of the University are urged to contribute in any amounts, large or small, according to their means. Call at the Cambridge Trust Company today, or leave the subscriptions...
...fourth cause that he assigns for failure is that "the city taxpayers have lost control over the expenditures of the tax money they have paid in." "Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought...
...game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...first you will be inclined to laugh at this man, and to think that he is not smart in his ideas. I suggest that you watch him closely, for he will presently demonstrate to you that money dominates everybody except the man who does not want money. You may meet that man on your farm, in your village, or in your Legislature. But be sure that, whenever or where ever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear...