Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss, I tells you what I thinks about this here war. Germany, some back, she starts a crap game, threw an eight, then falls off. Now she wants her money back and starts grabbing. The mistake was when she first started grabbing not knocking...
Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS! You, men and women of America are the suckers who filled up the stockings of profiteers, propagandists and foreign politicos with your own blood-your own brain-your own money! . . . WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO FILL THEM WITH THIS TIME? With the flesh of your wives? With the bowels of your children...
...last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that the Duce took steps in time to provide enough grain-for all. . . . Don't get the idea of hoarding anything at home, especially food. . . . Leave in the banks any money you have deposited. . . . Leave news from foreign sources alone. . . . Politics is not your business. Let Him-at Rome-who is responsible for everything talk about it. He-is enough...
According to the terms of the will, the money was to be used for "the erection, maintaining, supporting, and continuing an Anniversary Sermon or Lecture to be held or preached at the said College once every year successively...