Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorize the cancer clinic? But in the train of that simple question came a most extraordinary range of considerations-the nature and cause of cancer; the nature and authenticity of the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment; medical ethics, human nature, public policy, money, fame, and even national politics. Representing great wealth, prestige, knowledge and political power, the contestants in this greatest medical fight of many a year in some degree represented buoyant, bouncing, sometimes crass California against balanced, urbane, sometimes effete New York...
With all its past surplusses and vaunted wealth the United States has dealt niggardly with its younger diplomats and almost not at all with the graduates of its foreign service who have not ample personal means. Many young men in the consular service have been forced to withdraw from government employ because the salaries granted them were insufficient to insure even the necessities of a life conforming with the standards of living and entertainment expected of representatives of the United States, Because of the impossibility of supporting a suitable establishment, as advances in position brought added social responsibility and emoluments...
...doubt, know," amiably began President Pei, "silver represents the wealth and savings of more than one half of the world's population. . . . The lack of confidence in silver as a precious metal by the peoples of the world . . . has a great deal more to do with . . . Depression than many are willing to recognize...
...where he was helped by his strong, handsome appearance. In Rochester last year he found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera Judith done to the libretto of the late Arnold Bennett (TIME, July 8, 1929). Goossens' appearance in Cincinnati last week was just an introduction. Next autumn he will...
Under the aegis of the monarchy, whose benevolent protection it always enjoyed, the Church was able to monopolize large tracts of the few fertile areas in Spain. A keenly felt economic grievance was thus added to the hostility aroused in the proletariat by the clergy's wealth and power. Age-old hatred for a privileged class may have waited only for the disorder and excitement of a revolutionary period to break out in violence...