Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises in the history of the Mother of Parliaments was summarized in the slogan "Jack...
...Passed an amendment to the Deficiency Bill (for refunds of improperly collected taxes) prohibiting any payment of tax refund in excess of $50,000 without the O. K. of the Comptroller General. The point: to make it harder for "the rich" to get refunds, as Comptroller General McCarl is notoriously swamped with work...
...Passed the Deficiency Bill after a political debate in which Democrats charged the Republican party with being servile to the rich. Senator Couzens, Republican foe of Secretary Mellon, charged "fraud and crookedness" in the internal revenue bureau. Democrats, ruled out of order by Vice President Dawes, called for tax reduction...
...serious fact that fewer and fewer of the right sort of men enter American politics every year; and the more evident this fact becomes the less inclined are college men to consider public life as a career or to take any personal interest in the Government. The country is rich and prosperous; the college man who is a lazy individual is perfectly content to let the Government sink as it has been sinking gradually for many years into the hands of selfish not too greedy and fairly competent men. A recent novel of Washington life only increased this feeling...
Detroiters visited the Hanna-Thomson galleries last week for a first view of something they had been hearing about from other cities: the Glorification of the U. S. Workingman by Max Kalish, sculptor. Rich men and poor men went, for a Detroit art critic told them: "He deals. . . in the human symbols for certain sterling human qualities-strength, vigor, integrity, the beauty of a well-knit body and the fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle...