Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roll On, Next War!" John Gibbons uncovers a wealth of amusing anecdotes and parables relating to his own Great War experience...
...made violently jealous by public recognition of young Mr. Clement's real importance in OARP. The resulting split left the oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some...
...German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...
...past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type of skittish liquid capital has long since sought other havens, notably London and Manhattan. French capitalists themselves were converting their wealth into gold, sending it out of the land before the new Chamber of Deputies with its heavy Leftist majority assembles next month (TIME...
...February Representative Zioncheck shocked colleagues by asserting in the House that U. S. Supreme Court Justices were mostly "minions of wealth," that four or five of them were "old fossils." Next day he made news again when Texas' blatant Blanton called his arguments "asinine" and he stopped House proceedings to ask Speaker Byrns: "What does 'asinine' mean? I forget...