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Word: wealth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's most acrid editor, Giornale d'Italia's super-Fascist Virginio Gayda, cracked: "The wealth amassed by American Democracy was attained with wars of expansion and conquest during which they exterminated all native races. Nevertheless they have not known how to stamp out gangster crimes, and finally Lindbergh, America's national hero, has been obliged to seek safety for his child in voluntary exile across the Ocean." Terming the President's strictures upon Europe a form of intervention in the Continent's affairs, Signor Gayda ludicrously screeched, "Roosevelt's attempt at American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED STATES: In a Shoe Store | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...late. Japanese drove the Young Marshal out and set up as Emperor of Manchukuo erstwhile Mr. Henry Pu Yi. His Majesty did not summon Butterfly Wu to his new Court. She, as a Chinese Cinema Queen, has continued onward & upward. The height of her ambition was to marry wealth. Came last week tidings of her wedding in Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, to a wealthy Christian wine merchant named Eugene Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wu's Wedding | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...administration of government, and in Miss Ida Tarbell's "new type of business leader", exemplified by Mr. Owen D. Young, then Government Old Age Pensions are Unnecessary to ensure security for the aged, Government Unemployment, Government interference in all walks of life with their confiscation and redistribution of wealth. All are less effective and permanent than a revived and revised capitalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSION POLL | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...other side takes the attitude that such redistribution of wealth is not the Government's business, not intrinsically, but because private capitalism can handle the old age problem far more efficiently, more intelligently, more democratically, and more honestly. At present the aged are not, as a general rule, starving to death. They are supported by charity, in a small number of cases, by past thrift, in a larger number of cases, and by relations, in the majority of cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD-AGE PENSIONS | 1/7/1936 | See Source »

...chance of productive employment, of course, is the first and foremost essential to bringing on the new era along capitalistic lines, and this chance retires further and further into the background of possibility when deliberately job-eliminating measures such as the Wagner Bill, the N. R. A., and the Wealth Confiscation Bills are in force, also when the Chamber of Commerce, Monopoly, and High Powered Advertising distinguish our great sandy-geared system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD-AGE PENSIONS | 1/7/1936 | See Source »

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