Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of us are wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . Labor is the source of created wealth and Labor will protest so long as the inequitable distribution of wealth continues. This inequity can be wiped out in two ways, through a distribution in the form of wages and earnings, and through redistribution through the masses by taxation. . . . No man should have the right to hand down his great fortune intact...
Furthermore, he wrote: "Since the unbridled race for armaments is on the one hand the effect of the rivalry among nations and on the other the cause of the withdrawal of enormous sums from the public wealth, and hence not the smallest of contributors to the current extraordinary- crisis, we cannot refrain from renewing on this subject the wise admonitions of our predecessor * which thus far have not been heeded...
...beginnings of the dream, its sinkings into nightmare, its lapses into crude daylight reality, its volatile rises. Professional historian, no mealy-mouthed panegyrist, Adams has written his epic in curt, clear narrative; but "the epic loses all its glory without the dream. The statistics of size, population, and wealth would mean nothing to me unless I could still believe in the dream...
...eighty to a hundred thousand left their native colonies"-a considerable setback, thinks Adams, for U. S. civilization. But Washington was wary of democracy and most other aristocrats of the Revolution did not believe in it; it was Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence. "Hamilton stood for strength, wealth, and power; Jefferson for the American dream...
...code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred." As the U. S. stretched itself the booster was born. "As he lost sight of the real end for which wealth is won, so likewise he tended to lose sight of the real end for which an in crease in population may be desired. . . . The later odd aversion, in a nation wholly made up of immigrants of one generation or another, toward any of our citizens who expatriate themselves...