Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
Whittlesey doubted whether there were great mineral deposits outside of the rich area in Northern Rhodesia...
...which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
...retirement from the sea to Connecticut in 1925, big, blond, 57-year-old William McFee has brooded constantly over the misfortune that Americans (unlike Englishmen) have no solidified caste system. As a result, he says, the U. S. masses are forever filled with diseased aspirations to ape the rich, and the U. S. rich are forever uneasy in their "fear of revolt and the destruction of their ordered existence...