Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose. Such a purpose, it goes without saying, is not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome accumulations and to lay the burdens of government where they can best be carried...
...Share-the-Wealth Tax Bill, raising an estimated $250,000,000 in additional revenue...
...efforts to buy the Governor's office. I have never known a dirtier campaign to be waged against anyone for public office than the present one that is being waged against Paul Johnson. ... In my travels of 25 years with my husband, I have heard him denounce wealth, corporations and the money power. I have known his every thought during this time and understood his every move. I know he is not sincerely for Hugh White...
Canadians boast the greatest per capita wealth in the world, $3,148. Even more blessed is the Province of Alberta, with $3,518 per head. Yet Depression has hit Alberta hard. For years its breezy, two-fisted, hospitable citizens have been feeling poorer & poorer. Galavanting to the polls last week, they raised merry Empire hell by turning over their province to a Bible-babbling high-school principal who promises to crack open Alberta's frozen wealth and pay dividend" of every at bona least fide $25. citizen a "monthly dividend" of at least...
...steamers, travelers' affectations and disappointments, hold up remarkably well across the years, the chief distinction of Sophomores Abroad is Author Flandrau's wryly amusing apology for having written it. When he began his literary career, certain topics, including religion, college education, youth and the possessors of great wealth, were sacred in popular magazines, while other topics, like sex, cigarets and alcohol, were absolutely taboo. A character in the thick of battle might slay Indians, but he could not smoke. When Author Flandrau gave one of his travel-harassed heroes the satisfaction of a long, cold highball, it came...