Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge Democratic deficit, he opened permanent quarters in Washington, hired Press Agent Charles Michelson and set to work preparing Herbert Hoover's downfall. But there are notable differences: 1) Republicans will have difficulty in finding another Michelson, 2) John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal wealth with which to play sugar-daddy to his Party. Last week John Hamilton talked blithely of spending two or three weeks raising money to pay the huge Republican deficit whose full size is still undetermined but which will probably exceed $1,000,000. It took Financier Raskob and his party more...
...raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running Chinese to Cuba after the War, fought storms, lost his boy when a plague struck his cargo, returned to the Cape to find that his wife had run off with his wealth...
...Townsend had boasted of some 10,000,000 Townsend Plan voters primed to do his bidding. Priest Coughlin had sworn that he would deliver 9,000,000 votes to the Union Party or get off the air. Preacher Smith numbered his Share-Our-Wealth faithful at 6,000,000. Last week their joint candidate, William Lemke, polled 650,000 votes...
Faced with the prospect of less ice and a harder schedule, you might think the prospects for Coach Stubb's 1937 hockey team were rather grim, but such is not the case. Rather, a wealth of both experienced and inexperienced material promises that this year's sextet will be as good if not better than last year's highscoring outfit...
...mural completed last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens...