Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater than the percent of college men in the group as a whole. Men who entered college but did not graduate comprised 13 percent of the leaders in Professor Taussig's list. Men of exceptional ability apparently reached their goal with or without the advantages of education or inherited wealth...
...State, public utilities are closely supervised. There is universal military training, though citizens only serve two weeks a year after their first two months' training (three months for the cavalry). Citizens can and frequently do veto unpopular laws passed by the Federal Assembly by direct referendum. Inherited wealth is heavily taxed in most cantons. The President has very limited powers, serves for one year only...
...function of charity. They believed that charity to the poor should be done in justice rather than in mercy. Property, in their eyes, was of artificial and evil origin but had become necessary to human society. God, therefore, having originally destined to every man a share in the common wealth sufficient for his needs it became the duty of the church to give to those who had less than their share...
...plot of the production hinges about a poor shopkeeper's family, which has risen to great wealth through a lucky number in a lottery. After tasting the pleasures acquired by its riches, the family returns to its former mode of life, which it considers far more enjoyable. Andre Lefaur, who created the original role of Topaze, in the recent play of the same name, which was produced in Franco before coming to this country, has the lead...
Bewildered, rudely awakened from his dream of independent wealth in three years, Hector 0. Hamilton could tell correspondents no more than that he thought the Soviet authorities have recently learned for the first time that he is a subject of King-Emperor George V though his home is in East Orange, N. J. For a Palace of Soviets to be designed by a King-Emperor's subject would perhaps be too incongruous...