Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth of the country cannot be wholly redistributed by taxation processes. . . . We are opposed to regimenting every young man entering active life, putting him in a straitjacket, giving him an opportunity to be so much and no more. Men cannot be thus leveled without handicapping individual initiative...
...working hours and doubled his income, and is in a good way to recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned rather with truths that hope for acceptance than with truth." Still, Castor says it is an unpleasant load off his mind, and I am inclined to agree with...
Economics 4, a composite of two old half courses in railroads and corporations respectively, was given as a unit for the first time last year by Associate Professor Mason and Assistant Professor Chamberlin. It contains a wealth of interesting and important material, not yet fully hammered into shape...
...silk business grew, slowly at first, then more swiftly as the countrymen of Commodore Perry came to desire more and more silk. U. S. silk consumption swelled from 80,000 bales in 1900 to 500,000 bales in 1929, of which the U. S. took 73%. This was wealth to the Kata-kura brothers. In 1920 they recapitalized their company at 52,000,000 yen, gave it a more resounding name: Katakura Seishi Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Katakura Raw-Silk, Spun Silk Manufacturing Co. Ltd.). Today it is one of the largest and oldest silk reeling firms in the world...
...lost my reputation, my wife, my child, my home and my fortune and was skating on the thin edge of personal bankruptcy. All I had left was my mother." In a book called The Voice of Young America, he attacked U. S. business methods, advocated a better distribution of wealth. "It's the same old story. ... I myself had lain with trouble. That is why I changed...