Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...certain other of Mr. Bailie's characteristics fit well a liberal Administration and might even mollify the Senate. He is young (43), born in Milwaukee, but not to wealth. He is not only handsome, bright-eyed, good-humored, but since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed...
...social evolution. In Vienna, their stronghold, they made astounding progress in developing a workers' paradise, with miles of modern apartment houses with landscaped courtyards, plenty of open air and light, great pools and bath houses--all for an average of $5 per month. This was accomplished by taxation of wealth and luxuries, which means, in effect, throwing a monkey wrench in to the capitalist works without substituting any new works...
...that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks by a wealth of anecdote and a cheerful ironic style to disguise the fact that he has written an authoritative work on metropolitan anthropology...
...about a career woman who has to discover that women were meant for babies. Alison Drake, president of Drake Motors, femalefactor of great wealth, discusses automatic clutches and the stock market in the day time, and seduces handsome engineers and secretaries with vodka in her palace at night. Unfortunately all the men are willing. Not until the man who doesn't want to comes along does she discover the real things in Life. Unfortunately for the general effect, George Brent, the man who can't be made, does a rather good dominant male...