Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will at least demonstrate to the country that the extravagant and wasteful expenditures of the Democratic Administration cannot be met merely by 'soaking the rich.' ... It falls $3,305,000,000 short of meeting the deficit for the last fiscal year. Even as a redistribution of wealth measure, it would provide but $2.25 for each of our 120,000,000 people...
...first generation of Rocky Mountain capitalists, piling up their millions in the turbulent frontier period, were usually hard, determined men who were entirely satisfied with the simple acquisition of wealth and power. But so swift was the West's industrial expansion that a Montana-born financier, William Boyce Thompson, beginning his career as a small mining promoter, soon found himself involved in politics that had international ramifications, and before the end of his life had played a spirited-and unsuccessful-part in the greatest historic event of modern times. Hermann Hagedorn, in a friendly and somewhat romantic biography...
Because charities fear that the President's proposals for higher taxes on wealth will make philanthropists tighten their purse strings, charitarians descended on Congress with a counter proposition: let gifts to charity by corporations be specifically exempted from income tax. like charity gifts made by individuals. When newshawks put the proposition...
...much of the nation's wealth is rolling across our frontiers for foreign-grown products. The time has come to take leave of that saffron-hued old sweetheart, the lemon. She is no longer needed, for Germany has a previous substitute in its indigenous rhubarb. We have been neglecting it up to now. but it shall come into its own. It is a blood purge and a curative remedy of genuine German quality. Our lemons, then, shall be atoned with German rhubarb...
...attitude toward Caesar, who wanted to change the constitution. He left the uncomfortable middle ground to denounce Catiline, in one of the greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share the wealth by taking over the property of political antagonists. In the warfare between Caesar and Pompey, Cicero sided first with Pompey, became neutral, chose Pompey again, again became neutral, got on the losing side just before it lost. By that time he had antagonized both camps. He remained prudently true to his Republican convictions...