Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possess the strongest Navy and Air Force in the Far East and dominate the South Sea markets. The South Seas belong to the Far East and Japan is entitled to share the wealth of those regions, which Europe snatched while Japan was self-isolated. It is necessary to rectify Japan's economic portion, and now is the psychological moment, while European powers with interests in the South Seas are preoccupied.. . . It is sometimes proposed that Dutch oil be forcibly seized, but other methods can be tried at first. . . . We do not expect Britain, France and Holland readily...
...year ago that Prussian aristocrat, Nazi Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...
...property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...
...distort facts to influence public opinion against economic reform. Ickes produces facts and figures to show that publishing has become a big business in itself, with expensive plants and lucrative revenues; that publishers have grown rich; rich men have become publishers, and they are aligned with other men of wealth against the interests of common...
...Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between...