Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to dictate to us on how we are going to administer public works in Louisiana. . . . Mr. Long by the action of his Legislature will keep a lot of men out of work by making it impossible for PWA to make loans or grants. Apparently the Senator favors sharing wealth but not sharing work. Perhaps the Senator knows how to produce wealth without work and perhaps we'll have a profound economic and political theory announced after the Longislature has been in session some time...
...distinct minority, but also make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they oat seven or fourteen meals per week in the House dining-rooms they should pay a rate representing as nearly as possible what such a number of meals is worth...
...Senator is sincere or not in his fight rests solely with himself and time In either case he has offered a mental aspirin. In the so-called masses in the form of the proverbial ship on their horizon, which horizon had been up until his initial "Share-the-Wealth" speech. bare of any indication of rescue from the barren beach of want and suffering...
...University was having its twenty-fourth birthday. Over the sunbaked quadrangles bustled the black-cloaked figures of the men and women who were about to graduate. Hardy sons and daughters of the soil, brought there by the new wealth, they walked and talked in the manner of sober doers. Some day they would be the teachers, doctors, and ministers of the new state...
...Follette I both found how hard it was to get up the machinery of a third party on a country-wide basis. Huey Long is no man's fool about such a practical matter. He also knows perfectly well that outside Louisiana where his Share-the-Wealth Clubs are run by his lieutenants, they are not organized as an effective political army. He can either trade on his nuisance value or he can run as a third party candidate. He might, as some people have estimated, poll 10,000,000 votes. If he does run, it will...