Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irrepressible Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, doubting that France and England would risk a war. But many of his colleagues were impressed by the Kennedy-Bullitt stories, and Congress was aquiver by the time Franklin Roosevelt sent up his message telling why and for what he wanted more Defense money, besides the $510,000,000 for the Army and $720,000,000 for the Navy provided by the regular budget...
More welcome to Chief of Staff Malin Craig than a huge air fleet is the money for other Army material. He estimates that he now needs at least $140,000,000 to equip properly the Regular Army's 174,300 officers & men, and 200,000 National Guardsmen & Reserves who would comprise an Initial Protective Force of 400,000-the Army to bear the first brunt of war while drafted citizens are being trained. The Roosevelt estimates (including the "educational" $32,000,000) would just about fill out General Craig's minimum program...
...they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
...Many a Harvard student has drunk away his father's fortune; Leverett Saltonstall, who made no money as a politician, altered the pattern by selling his famous wine cellar to put Richard Middlecott through college with the Class of 1880." Richard V went into the law. His son, Leverett III, graduated in 1914, went into the law, and is now Governor of the Commonwealth...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...