Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed a savage political attack upon President Hoover after which a quartet sang a new Murray campaign song entitled "Hoover Made a Soup Houn' Outa Me."* Already in wide circulation were "Murray-For-President" buttons and the Murray campaign slogan: "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans...
...fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship and poverty." Then he quickly swung into his favorite economic theme-the wealth of the rich, the poverty of the poor. "The great middle class," he shouted, "is threatened with bankruptcy and extermination." He gave his audience the same platform of relief adopted in Oklahoma City...
...makes philanthropists give magnificent edifices at times when institutions can best employ funds in other, less ostentatious ways. For increase in the general operating funds universities must look chiefly to small donors, though occasionally their contribution is overshadowed by large unrestricted gifts. Eventually, we hope, more men of great wealth will spend less lavishly and more wisely. In the meanwhile small contributors need not be abashed or deterred by external signs of wealth; their money in class endowment and alumni funds is the backbone of the university's current operations. --Cornell...
While the U. S. was approving the Mills advancement as a well-earned promotion for a smart young man. Britain was generally acclaiming the Mellon appointment. The new Ambassador had prestige, tact, humor, wealth. He had nothing more to learn in the matter of intergovernmental debts. His love of fine arts endeared him to a cultured aristocracy. But Ambassadors to the Court of St. James's, in the past, have usually been felicitously articulate, if not downright oratorical. Between them and all Britons is the bond of a mother tongue. Speeches were always in order?the smooth elegancies...
...wealth of material responded to the call for Freshman rowers in the Union meeting last night. About 80 men heard Coaches Whiteside and Haines outline the Weld Boat House today. The squad will train in the Leviathan in a few weeks when the ice goes out of the river...