Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oklahoma's longwinded Thomas led off for the Administration. Senator Borah was to follow him, Leader Barkley to conclude. Mr. Borah looked worried as the gentleman from Oklahoma droned on & on, about his favorite theme: printing press money. But Mr. Barkley remained serene even when Senator Thomas used up all his side's time and Messrs. Borah & Barkley could not speak...
Contrary to the popular impression which arose when the money was first given in 1935, the Littauer Center will not be a separate graduate school in the sense that the Law, Business and Medical Schools are. Most of the faculty will be present members of the University faculty, and there will be no separate degree given for work at the Center...
Rare was the U. S. railroad that made money in 1938. One such was Chesapeake & Ohio, which last week reported 1938 earnings of $20,192,650 ($34,034,269 in 1937). Ownership of that rich property is well worth fighting for. During the last year a bitter dogfight has raged between the potent Guaranty Trust Co. and a group of tyro financiers headed by Robert R. Young. Chief bone of contention has been Chesapeake Corp., the holding company created by the Van Sweringen brothers to acquire a 51% interest in the C. & 0. Last week, as Wall Street had long...
...symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official ode on the 1893 Columbian Exposition...
...continued: "The basic reason why farm prices and incomes have averaged no higher, over a run of years, is that farmers' goods and services are available in larger quantities than people are willing to pay for at rates the farmer wants to get. Prices and incomes low in money terms are society's way of putting pressure on the weaker farmers to quit. If this form of pressure is lifted, some other form of pressure, here or elsewhere, must be exerted...