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Word: wealth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase the security and happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life, to give them a greater distribution, not only of wealth in the narrow terms, but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Citizen of Zion | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad land grants that his legislative activities were notorious even in those wide-open times. Then he reversed himself and began attacking the concentration of wealth, led the radical Farmers' Alliance, wrote best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for many offices, and died Jan. 1, 1901, with a nationwide reputation as the prince of cranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crank's Continent | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...went on, nursing his pipe in informal comfort (he is a big, ruddy man who looks a little like Richard Strauss), "we'll have not only Japanese and Chinese things but also a great wealth of primitive objects from the South Seas and Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME! | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...first home intercollegiate match, the Crimson's best polo team in years faces the Elis at the Common-wealth Armory tonight at 10:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Favored Polo Trio to Face Elis in Second Series Tilt | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...already swallowed Austria politically, economic alignment-of far greater.immediate importance to both countries-was discussed. To Austria German industry looks hungrily for iron and copper (see map, p. 21) and the Reich can use some Austrian timber. To Austria-which was lost from many of her sources of wealth by the post-War partition of her empire-Germany can offer wider economic horizons if Economic Plan Dictator Goring chooses, and not otherwise. That the two nations may form a customs union is now highly probable. Since the Austrian schilling is fairly sound money, whereas the German mark is artificial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Windows Opened | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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