Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation has yet been able to dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third...
Evidence of famine conditions continues to reach the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and Jewish rabbis in Central Europe in a wealth of letters penned by underfed Russian peasants to relatives abroad. Of these letters Soviet censors catch perhaps eight or nine out of every ten; but stupid, lenient or secretly anti-Red censors pass enough to make chronic malnutrition in the Soviet farm belt an imposing fact. For people who want to see starved and starving Russians, Cameraman Walker opened his portfolio last week. Samples...
...authenticity has never been questioned. In his varying fortunes he used to paint himself either when he was too poor to hire a model or when he wanted to display his sudden riches on canvas. Mr. Mellon's Rembrandt shows the artist when he was not rolling in wealth...
When gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, Skagway became the port of entry for the trek up over White Pass toward sudden wealth. Friends warned Soapy Alaska would be a tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order...
...tabloid mind, piously supposed to be plebeian, is no respecter of family. Last week, if further proof were needed, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. hastened to clinch the matter. Scion of a name that in three generations has become legendary to U. S. gumchewers as the label of aristocratic wealth, Author Vanderbilt did his feebly sensational best to throw his tribe into scareheads. It was his tenth book; the only real news about it was that smart Publishers Simon & Schuster were bringing...