Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality as the plains of his North Dakota, told reporters he wanted to do. Far from permitting an individual to receive $1,000,000 in income, he would...
...play "No More Ladies." At first sight it is impressive, but in retrospect it is seen to be riddled with faults. The plot is hackneyed, for it is the ancient story of what a wife does when she learns that her husband has been unfaithful to her. The lines possess a certain surface cleverness and brilliancy, but an unevenly mixed Coward-Barry-Lonsdale ancestry is painfully evident. In welcome relief to these mediocre features is the character portrayal; with the exception of the acidulous old lady who astounds the younger generation by being much more modern than they...
...American citizen who deposited his gold with his bank, but hardly anybody asked for a receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...
...enough truism, but the mere arbitrary contention does not change the present graduate study over night. The extinction of light does not necessarily bring more and brighter light. The undergraduate is certainly not left untouched during the reading period. Many books are needed which the house library does not possess, but are reserved in the Widener reading room. The early closing naturally limits the volume and distribution of readers at this time: for example, there is only one copy of Croce's History of Nineteenth Century Europe available for a large course. The unlimited reading in History and Government...
...industrial order, which had gone its untrammeled way for generations. Given a program, given the political power to legalize it, it nevertheless took a dynamic personality to hammer the mold of "in- dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such a man had to possess an enormous amount of physical energy. He had to have gusto. He had to be a phrasemaker. He had to be handy with the tools of propaganda. He had to have the ruthless drive of a Cromwell and the tact of a Disraeli In 2,000 A D. there will still...