Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevations in 175 cities and towns. No matter how worth-while the project from the point of view of Pure Science, that kind of employment is wasteful of the abilities of educated men, provides no opportunities for progress and a secure future, and adds not a jot to the wealth of the community...
...Connor Jr., nor any of the many friends and champions and advocates of Huey P. Long's policies were ever regarded by him as "henchmen." He looked upon them as devoted friends who were doing their utmost to aid him in his struggle to prevent the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a relatively few and for its redistribution among the masses of his countrymen who he thought had earned that wealth...
...streetcar strike, expounded his social views from the stand. Having had plenty of time since 1916 to acquaint himself with Marxian phraseology, he spoke easily of ''exploiting the workers" "working class struggle. "the historic objective." "I am a social revolutionist," he proudly declared, "one who believes all the wealth of the world should be socialized. ... I have always been in favor of the I. W. W. The President of the United States believes the same thing...
There was the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Dictator's unofficial chaplain and national organizer of his Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. This onetime pastor of a rich Shreveport Christian Church congregation surpassed himself in a 15-minute eulogy over his dead chief's bier. It began: "Greater love hath no man. . . . The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food...
...impassioned radio address last week Share-Our-Wealth Preacher Smith aired his own suspicions as to who was responsible for the Kingfish's murder, laid the blame on New Orleans newspaper publishers and Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi, whom he darkly accused of journeying to New Orleans week before with $25,000 in his pocket. In his best form, "The Man" Bilbo snapped back: "The Reverend ... is a contemptible, dirty, vicious, pusillanimous, with-malice-aforethought, damnable, self-made liar...