Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Make Money. Labor's responsibility in Recovery came right after Capital's in Harry Hopkins' mind. Now that the Government has strengthened its arm, "Labor's contribution . . . must be tolerance and fairness. . . . Labor must fully realize that under our economic system, businessmen have to make money to hire workers." Secretary Hopkins revived a report current in January but then disavowed by him: that among his major assignments is to do the job left undone by Secretary of Labor Perkins-get A. F. of L. and C.I.O. to bury the hatchet. "Business," said Business' new servant...
...helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
Most memorable passage in an otherwise pedestrian speech: "The only way we are going to stop spending is to stop paying out money, and the surest way of preventing the paying out of money is not to appropriate the money to be paid...
...very important guide to Nazi policy, and a clear reflection of the Fascist doctrine," was the way Professor Langer characterized the new book, which was prepared from a rare first edition. Roynal and Hitchcock, the publishers, arranged for the money from the sale of "Germany's Bible" to be given to John Chamborlain of Harper's Magazine, and Alvin Johnson, director of the New School of Social Research. These men will arrange for the disposal of the money in connection with the Refugee Fund...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance. Instead of the millions most people would have guessed, it totaled only...