Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried many banners declaring: "Supreme Court Declares Yale Unconstitutional," "Every Man Is a King," "Disloyal Order of the Kingfish," "Share Your Wealth With Your Wife," and "We Are Fugitives From a Chain Letter." They were dressed as kings, with blue robes and blue and gold crowns, making a very colorful procession...
...social objective, I should say, remains just what it was, which is to do what any honest Government of any country would do ... increase the security . . . more of the good things of life . . . distribution of wealth in the wider terms . . . places to go in the summertime . . . not to starve in their old age . . . give honest business a chance. ... It is a little difficult to define...
...broad idea was that all new wealth comes from the soil which is the foundation of all prosperity, and that the farmers have to be prosperous before others may prosper. It was shown that there has been a perpetual permanent ratio between agricultural income and wages paid by industry-both being constantly about equal...
Such folk do not believe in the redistribution of wealth, in Title II of the Banking Bill (government-controlled central bank), in AAA crop restriction. Hence John Nance Garner is much closer in economic views to Carter Glass than to Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, when Garner was in the House he favored budget balancing and government economy. Nearest he got to New Deal financial views was when as Speaker he went on record for a public works program of a billion or two-and for that the Republicans booed him loudly (TIME, June...
Last week Women Investors, Inc. filed its charter in Albany. It promised to "arouse women to a realization of the stake they hold in the nation's wealth." It promised to protect and preserve industry, stocks & bonds, homes, husbands, etc. It promised to oppose "unsound" legislation. "Few people realize," it said, "that women own 70% of the wealth of this country; 80% of the insurance policies now in effect. . . . It is the women who guard the family pocketbook, and the women now have decided to guard the nation's pocketbook...