Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political views, I believe, as did Jefferson, that we must annul certain privileges "and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society to make way for an aristocracy of virtue and talent." . . . EUGENE S. DANIELL...
...round tables were mainly notable for the wealth of fundamental fact which was distributed by experts to each other. Thus...
...foundry products, band instruments). Its mail order business reaches into the tiniest towns. In its convention halls more U.S. Presidents have been nominated than in any other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West." Yet in the matter of mayors...
...MacPherson divorced Robert Menzies McAlmon, penniless Greenwich Villager whose poems she had read during a visit to the U.S. in 1921. Because Poet McAlmon was awed by her wealth, she proposed the match herself, married him two weeks after their first meeting...
...Edison Mazda lamp put on a special postage stamp for the 50th anniversary of the electric light. Also he conceived the soap-sculpture fad for Procter & Gamble; and promoted "big breakfast" propaganda to boost bacon for Beech-Nut Packing Co. But no competitor can approach Ivy Lee in wealth and social stature. His friends are Rockefellers, Mackays, Guggenheims, John William Davis, the late Senator Dwight Morrow. His daughter Alice was presented at Court. He lives magnificently in swank East 66th Street...