Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble began fortnight ago when President Roosevelt tossed into the lap of Congress his scheme to up taxes on the rich as a means of distributing wealth and went gaily off to the crew races at New London. When he returned to Washington five days later he called Vice President Garner, Speaker Byrns, Senate Majority Leader Robinson, Senate Finance Chairman Harrison and Ways & Means Chairman Doughton to the White House for a conference that lasted nearly three hours. These five Administration bigwigs emerged to announce that the President's new tax plan would be appended by the Senate...
Proposals, Wealth in the modern world does not come merely from individual effort. . . . The individual . . . utilizes the many processes and forces of mass production. . . . As Andrew Carnegie put it "where wealth accrues honorably, the people are always silent partners." . . . The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance or gift is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people...
...Takahashi. Last week Finance Minister Takahashi explained that 10,000,000,000 yen is about the limit of internal Government bond issues which Japan can conceivably absorb, and she has now absorbed 8,650,000,000. Mr. Takahashi based his calculations on the fact that Japan's national wealth is about 110,000,000,000 yen and her national income about 10,000,000,000 yen, or roughly equal to what seemed to him the extreme borrowing limit. With courageous ire Old Takahashi reminded War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi that they once promised "to reconsider the situation...
...Take your young priest, called largely on account of his youth and supposed harmlessness, and placed in charge of a parish. Now this parish contains, as many do, a dowager of some wealth, decided (though foolish) opinions, a rather overpowering presence, and a surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump...
...Register & Tribune as a plain reporter. He still asks questions wherever he goes, on his frequent visits to Manhattan and Washington. No corn-fed bumpkin, no dallying rich-man's-son. inquisitive John Cowles has stored behind his thick-lensed glasses and his moon face a wealth of essential fact. An excellence of perspective on top of a sound judgment makes him one of the most important young newspaper publishers in the land...