Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only the wealth and family prestige of Baron von Neurath have enabled him as Ambassador at Rome and lately at London to hold his diplomatic post while snubbing or cutting direct visiting German Republicans. Dr. Stresemann, who placed Franco-German relations on friendly terms for the first time since the War, may well have turned in his grave at the appointment of Baron von Neurath as his successor. On the other hand Chancellor von Papen may decide to head the German delegation himself. Paradoxically, the Chancellor is rumored, as a man of business and trade, to have notably friendly relations...
...Labor is an indispensable partner in the creation of wealth, yet today we face the fact that society provides no adequate economic security for those who help produce its wealth." Recommendations: A planned industrial economy, shortened labor hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more...
...greed . . . that has brought the world to a pass we all see and deplore? From greed arises . . . narrow individualism which orders and subordinates everything to its own advantage, . . . cruelly trampling under foot all rights of others. Hence the disorder and inequality from which arises the accumulation of the wealth of nations in the hands of a small group of individuals who manipulate the market of the world at their own caprice, to the immense harm of the masses...
...hoarder of wealth is he. In 1929 he gave $1,000,000 to Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital, where he is head of the surgical department...
...Bevan's wealth, which permits him a capacious apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast, a house in Lake Forest and an annual junket to California, derives only in small part from his practice. In 1896 he married Anna L. Barber, sole heir to the late Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920). Dr. Bevan is a large stockholder, a potent director of the $42,000,000 Diamond Match...