Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing to say about the Minister of Labor for he is a son of Lord Derby and was born in another stratum. But the Prime Minister grew into power on the pennies of the poor people. He used to fight for the unemployed but now that he has got wealth and power he has not the courage to be in this House when this human issue is being debated...
...search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested. The diggers were hopeful that it contained a wealth of objects of art, found it had long ago been rifled, was empty...
...Material wealth can only rightly be interpreted in terms of human lives. . . . The fundamental challenge to the Christian gospel is the fact of human fellowship. That is the gospel. But will professing Christians live up to it? Will good men be content to be less wealthy, less powerful, less secluded, if only they can give more health, greater freedom and larger opportunity to the whole body of the people...
People of Tennessee are peculiarly an Anglo-Saxon Race, and ranks seven-tenths among the States of the Union in population-rich in agriculture, minerals, etc.; but the wealth of the State does not consist alone of its manufacturing enterprises, richness of its soil, the congeniality of its climate; but rather in the quality of its people...
...follow. The account is not a mere Schlesingeresque list of facts as some may unfortunately fear, but it is a story of those years written in a most readable manner. For those who look to it as a reference for certain idiosyncrasies of the period it offers a wealth of information, which as far as can be discerned is most accurate, and extremely enjoyable reading...