Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either desires to effect changes which will at least mitigate, if not avoid catastrophes such as that from which we are emerging, or it does not. Though N. R. A. is imperfect, it at least furnished a step in the direction of a better-organized society, wherein wealth might be more equitably distributed, and no man beaten before the starts. To abandon that goal is to forsake an ideal that gave promise of realization and to betray the trust of the American people...
Preceded by European legends of fabulous wealth and lavish living, a big black-haired Briton and a little, grey-haired German arrived in Manhattan last week to do business in frozen German credits. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Norris and Siegfried Wreszynski established headquarters at Manhattan's swank Savoy-Plaza Hotel. "We don't take all the business that comes to us," they declared to reporters. "Perhaps $5,000,000 would be too small. It is just as much trouble to handle $5,000,000 as $100,000,000." They had, they boasted, liquidated a total...
...conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia and acquired the wealth of Mareb by force or subterfuge...
...assembled sanction inequality, it is difficult to condemn the injustice of lynch law and trials similar to that of the Scottsbore boys. If Congress refuses rights to one minority group on account of color, it may refuse rights to other minority groups on account of creed nationality amount of wealth, or any other principle...
...Senator Borah's variant of this hoary statistic: 4% of the people control 95% of the wealth...