Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently last week's uprising was chiefly calculated as a demonstration against the May 14 Constitution plebiscite. Sakdalistas believed that if that vote were favorable...
That there is indeed a king of kings, though George V eschews the title, is never so apparent as when His Majesty draws to London the fabulous elect of India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed...
...small merchant, the disorganized of every class, each to grasp the spear shaft of union, the shaft of solidarity, and with perfectly timed thrusts, with amalgamated strength, to push that spear point through the breastplate of our common ills into the very heart of the concentration of wealth...
Then he waked hope in their breasts: Share-the-Wealth, a $5,000 homestead for every family, $2,000 to $2,500 a year income, no more than $5,000,000 for anybody.* "Just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division will show how it will work," he cried. "Maybe somebody says I don't understand it. Well, you don't have to. Just shut your damned eyes and believe it. That...
Adding up the quintuplets' wealth last week Surrogate Valin reported their assets thus...