Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reception for President Somoza of Nicaragua (see p. 15): "Heading the parade was a White House limousine bearing that great democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the stern dictator from Nicaragua, sitting side by side carrying on an amiable conversation. . . . Overhead droned hundreds of aircraft, burning the taxpayers' money...
...read an inscription on a big U-shaped building at the World's Fair which, still unfinished last week, was a focus of embarrassment for the Works Progress Administration, whose show at the Fair it is. Representative Woodrum's committee to investigate WPA before voting its 1940 money (TIME, April 20, et seq.), sent to New York City two Treasury engineers to look into the costs and efficiency of WPA projects compared to private projects. The Treasury's men made clear that WPA's monument to itself is a monument also to expense...
...wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico, on whom some million dollars were probably wagered in winter books, finished out of the money...
...most directions without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...
...woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...