Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lustily boastful of U. S. wealth, chidingly scornful of U. S. attitude was a bulletin issued last week by Harriman National Bank & Trust...
...Editor and General Manager Emeritus of the A. M. A., at present in England. *British economist (1723-90) whose Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations discusses the principle of division of labor, based primarily on the propensity of human nature "to truck, barter or exchange one thing for another." Precedent to this division of labor is the accumulation of capital...
...foregathered a group of magnates playing furiously with toy trains. Harvey's ego diminishes, and much clean fun with Margot ensues, interrupted by a visit from Frances and some friends on a small cruiser. Frances & friends drink with such success that Frances, disillusioned as to Harvey's wealth and roundly repudiating him, falls overboard, has to be rescued- by Margot, now properly disgusted. Harvey's eyes are opened, etc., etc. but Margot has left and it is three days before he finds her. Embrace, affiancement, the revealing of Faulkner as Margot's blueblood uncle...
Like many another widow of wealth, social prominence and energy, Mrs. Patterson has had the problem of finding a career. Of the third generation of a publishing family, she has long inclined in the family direction, has tried to buy first the Washington Post, then the Herald. She also offered to lease the Herald. In last week's announcement of her new connection, the Herald said: "Hearst papers are not for sale. . . . Mrs. Patterson will work . . . under the regular Hearst newspaper contract...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...