Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REFERRING TO YOUR JUNE 29 ISSUE, P 45 NEBRASKA'S GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS AT ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHARTER DAY EXERCISES FEB. 15, 1935. HE SPOKE ON "THE INHERITANCE TAX," POINTING OUT THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS NECESSARY IF CIVILIZATION IS TO BE PRESERVED...
...legislative plans but of glorious ideals was the platform Franklin Roosevelt had drafted. It recalled the Declaration of Independence by six times sonorously repeating "We hold this truth to be self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. . . . The worker has been returned. . . . The American businessman has been returned. . . . Our youth has been returned...
Unpopular with other prisoners at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary because of his wealth and scrupulous good behavior, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone was attacked by the most desperate of his fellow convicts, a bankrobber named James C. Lucas, leader of the prison riots last January which Capone refused to join. Catching Capone at work in the prison laundry, Lucas plunged a pair of scissors into his back. Whirling, Capone saved himself from serious injury, fought off Lucas until guards rescued him. Sobbed the onetime U. S. Public Enemy No. 1: "Why don't these fellows like...
...Lemke and Yale, Agriculture and Republican!" roared Father Coughlin by radio. "O'Brien and Harvard, Labor and Democrat! East and West! Protestant and Catholic, possessing one program of driving the money changers from the temple, of permitting the wealth of America to flow freely into every home...
...Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began...