Word: plutocratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian ("one of the few millionaires who dress like millionaires...
...Plutocrat. Footloose and taxfree, Niarchos typifies a new species of plutocrat. He leads a frankly sybaritic life, with no apologies and few hangovers...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Cinemactor Charles (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes}. Coburn, 77, one of Hollywood's favorite choices for bloated-plutocrat roles, stood up before the Chamber of Commerce in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale and told the boys why plutocrats are no longer bloated. His subject: "Freedom or Slavery." His target: the federal income tax. Appearing near by in a summer theater production of You Can't Take It With You, Coburn lamented that he cannot even keep it while he is alive. "I have paid $1,000,000 in federal...
...does point with pride to a $400 million highway program and construction of schools, hospitals and public housing. But many Massachusetts TV owners who watched the corpulent governor keynote the Democratic National Convention were distressed at his resemblance to any cartoonist's conception of an 1890 Republican plutocrat. Other voters were angered when Dever attempted to ignore public outcry against an overgenerous pension bill for Massachusetts politicians (TIME, Sept. 15). He finally yielded to public pressure, called a special session of the legislature, which last week repealed the bill...
...candidate, William Howard Taft, announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave off the bill, finally offered the constitutional amendment legalizing an income tax. Hull and his group thought that Aldrich was trying to trick them, that the conservatives would kill the proposed amendment in the state legislatures...