Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
Serious Sideline. A second good fortune followed. General Johnson denounced him (TIME, March 18). Senator Long did not mind in the least. He demanded radio time to reply, and seized the opportunity, not to denounce General Johnson but to propagandize for his Share-the-Wealth Clubs. That brought him his maximum mail, over 30,000 letters...
...nominated him for President in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech of acceptance in which the following passage fairly raised the roof with applause: "Throughout the nation men and women . . . look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth." To most Chicago delegates those words were just mouthfilling rhetoric, a noble sentiment to be approved but not literally practiced. But when Huey Long heard them, they sounded like an inspiration. He filed that effective Rooseveltian appeal away in his memory. Today he is using...
...Share-the-Wealth movement is divided into two parts. Part I is in Louisiana where Share-the-Wealth meetings are part of the regular curriculum of Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young...
Titans of the Press in the last century were Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), and Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the lamented New York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...