Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more by personal influence than by books and the apparatus of schools. If I could be taken back into boyhood today, and had all the libraries and apparatus of a university, with ordinary routine professors, offered me on the one hand, and on the other a great, luminous, rich-souled man, such as Dr. Hopkins was 20 years ago, in a tent in the woods alone, I should say give me Dr. Hopkins for my college course rather than any university with only routine professors. The privilege of sitting down before a great, clearheaded, large-hearted man, and breathing...
...England prosperous-thereby apologizing for the fact that in proportion to the taxes it has paid New England has received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared that income and estate taxes had been increased only for the rich-"less than 1% of the heads of American families"gave the impression that poor are paying less in indirect taxes than they did in 1932. The undistributed profits tax on corporations he described as an advantage to stockholders but promised that if "imperfections" were discovered in its application, they would...
...knowing quite whether he had harvested a bumper crop of votes or had merely provided New England with a holiday, President Roosevelt dictated his grief at the death of his rich and radical Senator James Couzens (see p. 53): "The people of Michigan and the nation have lost a leader whose convictions were part of the best that America aspires...
...Tribune's late great Publisher Joseph Medill had no sons, two daughters. Daughter Katharine married Diplomat Robert S. McCormick, bore Medill, who became a U. S. Senator, and Robert R. McCormick. Daughter Elinor married Editor Robert W. Patterson, bore Joseph and Eleanor Patterson. As rich men's sons, Cousins "Bertie" and "Joe" both went to Groton and Yale. Afterward, both dabbled in Chicago politics but with notably different approaches. Cousin Bertie remained true to his class, performed efficient civic service as an orthodox Republican. Cousin Joe turned social-conscious and, along with several novels and plays, wrote Confessions...
...almost unlimited academic freedom with her motherly moral restraints. It would seem the young Englishman grows quickly in mind but leaves his morals for others to develop. (On the other hand I've seen some corking good wall scalers!) How much of this proctoral jurisdiction serves to continue a rich tradition and how much of it to encourage a stubborn hypocrisy is, I suppose, a matter of whether you prefer mutton or frankfurters...