Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts last week to interpellate Prime Minister Laval's Government about the loan brought a smash vote. By an overwhelming majority of 555 to 11 the Government's action in furthering the loan was barred from debate. Never was there better proof of the power of wealth...
...take that wealth of laurel, please...
What turnip-growers cannot do with turnips, Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales proposed last week to do with what he called "the wealth which Australia can produce in her primary and secondary industries...
Against this "wealth" Laborite Lang would issue money, as it is usually issued against gold. He also proposed that the interest paid on Australian Government bonds be reduced to 3%. Finally he urged the Premiers of all the Australian States to demand from Great Britain "as favorable terms in repaying our debt as were granted by the United States" to Great Britain...
...Unfortunately Mrs. Patterson has more than a million dollars income, thanks to her grandfather, Joseph Medill, who founded the Chicago Tribune, so she won't do the fine things that she might do. Few-succeed, in spite of wealth, the worst of all handicaps...