Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish and there will be less poverty...
...policy of pressure groups is vicious, says Mr. Lippmann, because the production of wealth is diminished. He agrees with the managers of great corporations who are "fully aware that the production of wealth is restricted by labor laws which enable their employees to do less work for more pay." Mr. Lippmann does not suggest that more purchasing power in the hands of workers enables managers to produce more and so facilitates the production of wealth. At this point Mr. Lippmann does not seem to believe in either the redistribution of the wealth or organization of workers. But 100 pages further...
...goes on to declare for "monetary management," for conservation of the land and natural resources, for the cooperative organization of producers "such as farmers and workingmen." He finds that "there is no reason why some part of the wealth produced should not be taken by taxation and used to insure and indemnify human beings against their personal losses in industry." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he regards the Social Security Board as an agency of overhead control or a method of social control by the common law. He indorses public works, the development of water power, insurance against industrial...
...decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rendered year ago, President Lazaro Cardenas last week nationalized by decree 2,000,000 acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary, and 500,000 acres leased to the French-financed Compania...
...weekly plays, of which last week's was the first, the U. S.. Office of Education will dramatize for U. S. citizens Latin-American history, heroes, culture and wealth. Said U. S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker: "This will probably be the first time in history that one government has spent time and money on a sustained effort to help its own citizens appreciate the ideals of people across the border...