Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flagrant waste of public funds. In Germany where public money appropriated to increase employment was expended on parks and elaborate housing improvements instead of on other things which were much more essential to a war-ridden, debt-burdened country, there is a striking example of this misdirection of public wealth. It is a truism in economics that such schemes as that proposed by the Democratic Committee of the Senate for the undertaking of public enterprises in reality do not "create" work. For the money which the public will spend on bonds for these government undertakings will be diverted from other...
...money must be doled out, it is surely more desirable that it should be given in the form of wages for labor, even though done on public works not greatly needed, than that the money should be given as charity. And though the project might not increase the total wealth of the community it would make for more equitable distribution, taking in no considerable measure from those who can afford to pay in order to provide the bare essentials for others...
...School, the experimental adjunct of Teachers College, Columbia. Charlton parents persuaded Miss Chandor to start up on her own, which she did with 40 girls in East 62nd Street. Quietly, carefully, successfully ever since she has run her Chandor School, choosing 100 girls for character and breeding sooner than wealth, keeping classes small, teaching always herself, emphasizing scholarship, urging college afterwards but making sure her girls get an "education to live in the world." Spence's 176 pupils plus her own 100 would make her shift to the bigger scale of New York's other schools...
...admittedly easier to critize than to offer a remedy. A parking garage for University members would go far to relieve the pressure, and in the great days of yore there was wealth, and men who gave thereof for building endowments. Today that is perhaps a vain dream. If so, it would at any rate be inexpensive and humane to have the problem surveyed by a student of city-planning. Something might come of it, if he avoided being hit by the Lechmere Limited. Nicholas Healy...
...Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker's blood begins to simmer. With Muller, a circus mechanic, he opens a bicycle shop. Soon Muller and he are fooling with automobiles. Their first model is bought by Financier Homer Flint, from Pentland where Joanna lives. Pierre goes into business under Homer...