Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must be the result of bludgeoning by an organized proletariat...
...defending precisely what it is opposing today. It was defending the concept of community regulated according to function, one aimed at spiritual ends with commerce as a mere thing to keep the body alive until death. It was fighting the rising concept of material progress, the search for wealth as an end in itself or as the sole way to happiness, the new idea of selfishness as an eternal law which made this the best possible of all worlds...
...Treasury is placed in a position where it must borrow several billion dollars from the people on bad securities. In any way to suggest that U. S. Government bonds are or can be or will be in any sense bad securities is not only a reflection on the wealth and integrity of this country and its people, but impeaches Dr. Sprague's own common sense and competency...
...first year he grossed $1,000. Then he bought and auctioned a lease in Stone-bluffs. Okla., netted $45,000, his first wealth. Just before the panic of 1921, he went to Europe. Six months later he returned to find himself $400,000 in debt. It took him three years to pay it back. By 1929 he was once more on his way, able to pay a seven-figured sum for a third interest in his father's oil properties...
...yard free-style swim, Sherwood and Edward C. Deveareaux, Jr. '34 are the leading contestants but the added experience of Devereaux gives him the edge over the former Freshman captain. Coach Ulen has a wealth of good material to work with in the breaststroke in the persons of Martin L. Levintritt '35, who was ineligible last year, Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34 and three sophomores, Harold E. Jahn '36, John B. Little '36, and Walter S. White...