Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born at Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before graduation he married Laura Hall, daughter of a wealthy Kansas printer, after graduation settled briefly in Kansas City, Mo. before...
Chief aim of the new law is, of course, to force declaration of dividends, collect high surtaxes from the rich. Incidental effect will also be to pinch pennies from small stockholders in big companies. Under the old law an individual who owned ten shares of stock earning $6 per share and paying $3 dividends, got $30 in dividends tax free. The Government took about $9 in taxes out of the profits kept by the company and $21 of his dollars remained in the company's hands for expansion, etc. Under the new law if the dividend rate remains unchanged...
...money toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters lay anxiously in wait for what Frank Brock of the New York Better Business Bureau described as "the biggest potential sucker list of all times...
...Soak the Rich!" Although Communist supporters of the Blum Cabinet demanded an immediate soak-the-rich confiscation of part of all great French fortunes last week, Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol backed water so much from this position that his motto might have been, ''Don't Soak the Rich...
...Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...