Word: plutocratism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's stamp collection, appraised at $100,000, was up at auction in Manhattan. About half was sold; it brought $134,550. Curiosa: 52 "Brickbat & Bouquet" covers. Philatelist Roosevelt had happily kept envelopes addressed to "Dishonorable Franklin Deficit Roosevelt," "Plutocrat F. D. Roosevelt, Owner of 4 Estates, Member of 13 Clubs, White House," "The Sit-Down Politician," "White Father of the Pretty Bubbles." A Manhattan department store...
...aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...
...called in his new Propaganda Minister Gudbrand Lunde and a Goebbels campaign in miniature began. The Antarctic was and would always be Norwegian, proclaimed Stooge Lunde, because for centuries Norwegian whalers had visited there. Norwegians had led the way to the South Pole. The U. S. was a rich plutocrat trying to jump Norway's claim...
Accompanying Capitalist Ryti into the Bolshevik's lion's den was plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...