Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little better than his usual good humor one day last week when his newshawks came to press conference. The session had been postponed from the usual 10:30 a. m. to noon to get maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much of the income from these securities...
...revenue had the Treasury lost by such schemes? He could not say, exactly. Had this tax-dodging just sprung up? No, it had been growing for several years, but lately it was much worse. How many people were engaged in it? Not many, perhaps about 150 of the very rich. Who was the yacht owner? Oh, it was illegal to name the tax-dodgers out of court. They would come out. A Congressional investigation can reveal anything...
Newshawks smacked their lips over a good story and a better one to come, for tax-dodging tycoons are juicy copy. But newshawks were gently cynical, just two years ago at this time the President put forward his soak-the-rich inheritance, gift and surtaxes. Early last year he put forward his undivided profits tax on corporations. Some suggested that Franklin Roosevelt was having a periodic attack of soak-the-richitis...
What remained true was that, from a political standpoint, 150 rich men could do much to make the country forget Nine Old Men. Politicians calculated that with the Wages & Hours bill which he proposed fortnight ago, plus a red-hot new hunt for malefactors of great wealth, the President might recover some of the popularity he had lost on the Supreme Court issue...
...much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying so rich a cargo and bringing it safely to port...