Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime to possess liquor. This does away with the "rich man's" excuse that his is "preWar stuff...
Comment. Philip Snowden (Labor) : ". . . the worst rich man's budget ever presented"; Mr. Churchill has "compassion" for "the poor, overburdened, starving, unemployed supertax payer. . . . So much for this example of protection, pure and simple, by this greatest apostle and protagonist of free trade, a Tory protectionist Chancellor of Exchequer...
Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) was reticent. He derided the budget for taking money out of one rich man's pocket and putting it into the pocket of another. As regards the new insurance scheme, he would consider it when it was produced...
...FALL GUY?Wherein a poor man almost gets rich and almost goes to jail for becoming a bootlegger against his will...
...sold his Company to the Cleveland and Manhattan banking and brokerage firm of Otis & Co., founded by Charles A. ("Tot") Otis, also editor of Finance and Industry. That was not surprising. But that he should have sold for $3,000,000 less than was offered was. Mr. Foster, rich and content, was actuated solely by the desire to have the Company's stock sold to his employes and the public at a reasonable price...