Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these men did great things and are so deserving of thanks. But conditions have changed; the frontier is gone and great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate the lot of the drivers, sought only to make trouble for the cab operating companies. Now is the time...
...between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I (the type) can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed. . . . The work of the working people, and nothing else, produces the wealth which by some hocus-pocus arrangement is transferred to me, leaving them bare. While they support me in splendid style, what do I do for them? . . . I am not aware of doing anything...
Although this course has received considerable notoriety as a football player's course, the serious minded student not concentrating in English will find it of considerable value. Professor Rollins, who will confine himself to the half year on prose in 1934-35, gives an immense wealth of material and detail in rather prosy style. The reading is rather long, but not prohibitively so, and by judicious selection the student can save himself a lot of plowing...
Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their...
...some years past, English 33 has performed the great service, each year, of making a large number of students acquainted with the wealth of little-probed material that is available in American literature. At the beginning of the course in October there are usually a number of men who are not entirely sure that American writings can offer them anything that will be worth their while. By June these doubters have become enthusiastic readers of American literature...