Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then that greedy Business, by raising prices too soon and too fast, would deflate the recovery boomlet of 1936-37. If the executive wing of TNEC has a preconceived case to prove and to act upon with legislation many months hence, this is it: that large concentrations of corporate wealth and productive capacity have, in various industries, anti-social powers which must be curbed by the Federal power. But after Mr. Henderson and the Janizariat and the President started out to prove that case, in stepped Senator O'Mahoney. He it was who, by nimble action on the President...
...leader is so familiar with the writings of Confucius, from one of whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside over which they maneuvered...
...have done is to eliminate Jews from public life in Germany. Let the English say what they will, what we do is our business! . . . After five-and-one-half years of National Socialism, the Jews still have in Germany proportionately four-and-one-half times as much wealth as the Aryans...
From this Dr. Goebbels proceeded to an economic attack on the Jewish Question. According to him, if the average German owned as much as the average German Jew still owns today, the national wealth of the Reich would be not as at present some 200 billion marks but over 900 billion marks...
...mainly for one reason: they claimed, justly in the main, that on their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side of the argument is, of course, that these laws are intended to redress some of the undue wealth-destroying laws which Labor won under the "New Deal" Cabinets of M. Léon Blum (TIME, June...