Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
...completely confiscatory inheritance taxes. It is true that Mr. Conant briefly takes cognizance of these problems, but he vastly under-rates them. The fact remains that it is impossible automatically to redistribute power and privilege at the end of each generation unless there is a simultaneous radical redistribution of wealth...
Several notable examples of clear speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free...
...they will be seeing subs going up the Charles. It is therefore extremely important for the welfare of the American people that public opinion be formed in the light of past experience rather than in an atmosphere of excitement and sentimental and educational appeals. Don't let our vast wealth and the lives of our young men be the cat's paw of European diplomatic greed and animosities. Many a mother's son closed his eyes in agony, consoled only by the thought that he gave his young life in "the War to end Wars." Thomas Dorgan
Politically cynical ("Share the wealth? A very amusing proposal"), he got that way either by being the son of a Boston politician (Democratic Mayor) or by amassing a fortune before he was 30, after dropping out of Harvard in his second year...