Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated $45 apiece. A FORTUNE survey found that 25% of U. S. families expect to attend the New York fair and President Whalen estimated that each visitor would spend $56 apiece, a reasonable estimate since Manhattan's nightlife and Manhattan's shops provide more chances to spend money than Chicago's. All told, he foresees a billion dollars worth of business for New York City, which is supposed to swell to $10,000,000,000 before it has spent its force. The fair estimates that the billion will be spent as follows...
...Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till...
...Negro handyman in Knoxville, who "jest don't care nothin' about a stiddy job." Says Joe: "The Lord cut me out in the shape of a man that's naturally made to have a good time. But he didn't give me the money to have that good time...
...these days of financial recession it is unusual to hear of anyone passing up government money, yet for give years for five years the University with true Republican disdain has held aloof from generous federal offers. Although the National Youth Administration has repeatedly expressed a willingness to contribute a hundred and thirty-five dollars to each of the two hundred and forty college students whom Harvard's officials declared to be both in good standing and in need of the funds in order to remain in college, a wary University Hall has refused to accept the grant...
...acceptance of the N.Y.A. offer, for the rise in dining hall wages--in spite of the adjusted rates--will cut down the profit margin upon which the Temporary Student Employment Plan depends for its existence. Since the N.Y.A. funds are to serve the same purpose as the T.S.E. money, i.e., work-scholarships, there is no reason why the government grant cannot be used to make up part of the salaries now paid by T.S.E. "Pride goeth before the fall" and a haughty University can best serve its own ends by accepting a liberal government...