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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piqued by the saying that there was increased concentration of wealth, Dr. Rufus Stickney Tucker, rumbly-voiced associate economist for General Motors, year ago began studying The Distribution of Income among Income Taxpayers in the U. S., 1863-1935. His chief conclusions, which he presents in a mass of charts: There is a great concentration of wealth, but it is far less than it once was, for "persons with incomes equivalent in purchasing power to between 4,000 and 10,000 1929 dollars have become a much larger proportion of the population since 1916, and those with incomes equivalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Concentrated Wealth | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Tucker's "study of real wages of workingmen" convinced him that the most rapid improvement in their purchasing power occurred from 1864 to 1873, 1880 to 1892, 1922 to 1929. He found that the first and third periods were also marked by the greatest concentration of wealth. This led him to postulate that concentration of wealth derived from legitimate business profits is a concomitant of general prosperity, while concentration from speculation (as in 1929) or war profits (as in 1863-65) is not. His inference: "Any measures that may be taken to diminish the concentration of wealth and income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Concentrated Wealth | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...declined to negotiate with U. S. Director George Rublee of the Intergovernmental Refugee Bureau. In Berlin, applications by German and Austrian Jews for admission to the U. S. still swamped the U. S. Embassy. The quota is 27,370 per annum. Jews can take only 8% of their wealth out of Germany. Until the President and Mr. Hull sounded off, they had hoped that Director Rublee and his negotiators could up this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When his will was filed for probate in Chicago last week, rumors of secret wealth supposedly salvaged by the late fallen Utilitarian Samuel Insull were dispelled once & for all. All that was left of a fortune once estimated at $100,000,000 was $1,000. Debts totaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Deal is what it says: a new and more even distribution of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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