Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth should be conscripted to balance the budget...
...Congress, the sixth Acting President appointed since St. Gandhi was clapped into jail in January (TIME, Jan. 11). Poetess Naidu is still rich, still a potent poetess, but the slender, bashful Victorian maiden has become a matron with grown children who now devotes her large person and her vast wealth to the cause of Indian Independence. Fully expecting that His Majesty's Government would soon jail her, Mrs. Naidu keynoted while she could last week these facts...
Peirce during his lifetime was a man of retiring habits, but after his death a wealth of philosophical speculations was found which Charles Harishorne and Paul Weiss are classifying and editing. Peirce has been characterized as the greatest American philosophic genius. He is the creator of pragmatism and the founder of modern logic. James, Royce, Schroder, and Dewey have acknowledged their indebtedness to him. He introduced into modern philosophy the doctrine of scholastic realism, developed the concepts of chance, continuity and objective law, and showed the philosophical significance of the theory of signs and mathematical logic...
...Taxes are bad and sales taxes are particularly bad. They are levied upon poverty and not upon wealth. . . . But we have to balance the budget. . . . In that choice selection of fine spirits that meet daily in the Democratic cloakroom, known as the Demagogue Club . . . our slogan is Safety First. . . . Taxes are always unacceptable, never popular, always cost political strength. It's easy for us to vote NO. . . . Some of us just demagogue on anything that happens to come along. . . . We have our farm section . . . our oil friends . . . our beer group. . . . The soldier group of the Demagogue Club . . . is raring...
...rank second to Duerer in this field, in which so many German artist's have been outstanding. The newly invented art of printing called for illustrators who would help to make of each book a genuine work of art; and it is here that Burgkmair is most distinguished. His wealth of imagination shows itself nowhere more convincingly than in the long and brilliantly achieved series of illustrations for the chivalric romances of the Emperor Maximilian, "Theuerdank" and "Der Weisskunig...