Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee show that the party faces a deficit in its treasury of approximately $1,500,000. This is an obligation resting on the shoulders of the members of the party. . . . The party should be responsible to the rank and file, and the whole system of calling upon a few rich men to make up a party deficit is wrong. . . . There must be a great many people who can afford $100 . . . $50 . . . $10 ... $5. I am quite willing to bear my full share. Countless letters come to me . . . which contain requests for printed copies of the speeches made by me during...
...Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young architect...
...ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed...
Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...