Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperity. It was far deeper than that. The reorganization must be permanent for all the rest of our lives in that never again will we permit the social conditions which allowed the vast sections of our populations to exist in an un-American way, which allowed a maldistribution of wealth and of power...
...project of her schoolgirl friend at whose wedding she was a bridesmaid. Cried Congresswoman Greenway: "This is a far broader issue than a furniture factory, the leading lady of the land, or the purchase of one particular commodity. . . . We are well into the experiment of decentralization of wealth, and it has to be accompanied with the decentralization of industry. . . . There are 14 of these experiments going on in the U. S. today. . . . Private industry, to my absolute knowledge, was begged to go down to Reedsville and make this experiment...
Teachers College's bald, nervous Clyde R. Miller, reaching Cleveland early, key-noted before the Cleveland Schoolmasters' Club: "Two percent of the people in the nation control 85% of the wealth and I suspect that if they could sell air they would get a corner on it and let the rest of us suffocate."* Among his list of a dozen "axioms" were: 1) Life is worth living. If it isn't we ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people...
Washington. March 9--The White House announced today that all quotted restrictions on liquor importation wealth be lifted for a temporary period in order to improve the supply and lower price. The tariff of $5 a gallon is also affected by the program...
...that of Deputy Auditor Thomas Buckley, who was on hand to defend Hurley. To Gill's "hit and run" charge, which came almost at the end of his closing argument, Buckley, stocky, red-faced, jumped up and snarled, "Mr. Hurley has been an elected officer of the Common-wealth for the past four years. He never offered charges he could not substantiate. He left town, not because he was a hit and run driver, but because he was ordered away (much laughter) to recover from the strain of three months delving into the frightful conditions of Norfolk, Prison." (Long laughter...