Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of French editors, long used to Marxian proposals for a capital levy or seizure of prosperous people's wealth, President Roosevelt's devaluation move seemed precisely that. They concluded that his 40% to 50% devaluation of the dollars in every U. S. citizen's pocket will so cheapen the U. S. national debt that in "real money" it will be less under President Roosevelt this year than it was under President Hoover...
...Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long enough to advise on last week's momentous gold-doings. Mormon Marriner Eccles, in good standing with the Twelve Apostles of his church, also gets credit for liberalism because he favors large emergency expenditures and redistribution of wealth by high income taxes...
Fourth, the enormous increase in national debts everywhere and the maladjustment of trade relations resulted in an uneven transfer of wealth from one country to another, thus causing disturbances in the price levels, especially as gold in unprecedented amounts moved across international boundaries...
...Business is the cause of all crime," was the opinion expressed by Clarence Darrow in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The only way to cure our present so-called crime wave is a radical redistribution of wealth so that no one would have more than another, thereby removing all temptation to commit crime...
...feted fortnight ago in his lofty Palazzo Venezia. They were "champion mothers," the pride of Italy, with an average of 14 living children apiece-a total approximating that of an Italian infantry regiment. To each mother Il Duce gave a fat money prize, though three were women of wealth. They had already received the Government's regular bonus of 500 lire for every child born after the seventh...