Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again according to the simple reasoning of New Dealers, there seems to be some trouble among farmers. They do not make enough money. Why not tax somebody, or borrow from somebody and rectify these low incomes? Not that the victims of the Processing Taxes are exactly rolling in wealth...
...that intelligent youth should shy from public service. Not that the problems of government are too narrow to challenge the gifted. But that, judging from our eminent example, and from Abraham Lincoln, perhaps brains and character are more important than, and not essential to, education, good family, and wealth...
...Roosevelt came of a good family; he had wealth; he passed through the best and most expensive education in the country. After twentynine years, he found himself in a position where the richest and most powerful nation in the world was at his feet, begging for leadership, for strength, for intelligence. He yielded to the intrenched stupidity of special interests; to capital he gave monopoly, to labor he gave crooked unionism and class bitterness. Only borrowing on a back-breaking scale floated the country off the rocks of disaster...
While Fesler has a wealth of reserves, his Varsity is no more powerful than last year's team which dropped all but three games. This year, however, he has been carefully developing his material and striving above all to put an aggressive outfit on the floor. In his opinion, lack of aggressiveness was the principal fault of last year's team, and this season he plans to make the Crimson quintet a fighting unit...
...hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium (1924) and at Ottawa when he was appointed first U. S. Minister to Canada (1927), she played a notable part in her husband's career. The wealth of the Phillipses which has opened to him posts which were closed to other career diplomats has also been a drawback, for they have ever found difficulty in securing adequate living quarters. In Brussels they lived for some time in the two front rooms of a pension. When Secretary of State...