Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange as the ways of the Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last week he went further. On April 1, New South...
...intensive effort not only to break the hearts of atoms but also to create new atoms out of rambling electricity. These experiments may well become historic. Among the probers into the tough little universe of the atom, Professor Compton ranks with the most dexterous; and he has the great wealth and equipment of the University of Chicago at command...
...increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates. More important to the University than buildings are the men who fill them. Harvard ought to do everything it can to make the entrance of capable men as little contingent on wealth as possible...
Other newsworthy speeches were made by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was booed when he opposed U. S. recognition of Russia; Robert Paine Scripps, president of Scripps-Howard newspapers who demanded a shorter workweek, a wider distribution of wealth; Frank Murphy, red-headed Mayor of Detroit, whose description of his city's $2,000,000 per month Unemployment relief brought forth great cheers. Present at the conference as a silent spectator, was Ohio's Democratic Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, whose friends hope to put him in the White House (TIME...
...Rinehart does not tell all she knows. She never has. It seems to be on her conscience. She says: "I had at my fingertips a wealth of material which I would not use. I knew better than the average the weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned...