Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...
While she was being quietly ousted last week, two younger, more tractable career women received rich promotions. The wife of Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova...
...goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h...
...rainy night last month William Zielsdorf, a serious little German who keeps a nursery in McLough, Kans. settled down to listen to the radio. Soothed by the music and the rich, fruity tones of announcers, William Zielsdorf dozed. Suddenly he sat bolt upright. An exciting voice had just said...
...rich today, poor tomorrow; we are popular today and the world cries for our heads tomorrow. Sooner or later to every man, like all great religious experiences. comes some provocative occasion that requires his soul. The outward standards of success are so glamorous that a man can be horribly humiliated unless he lives up to them. But every man in his home and within can be a real...