Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role convincingly. Jane Cowl muddled her lines at times, but is quite successful as the philanthropic lady of leisure. Thurston Hall, who bears a close resemblance to Herbert Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...
...fluctuations of enrollment and wealth account for the inconvenience to this fraction of the undergraduate body, they do not prevent an attempt to remedy the situation. To allow upper class residents of these halls house privileges should not be difficult, for in number they are few, and as Freshmen they had many acquaintances among present House residents. An assignment of seven to each House would provide for the entire group with little trouble, and would go far to right the present injustice...
Even the 55-year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
Asked to address a luncheon for 450 welfare workers in Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week, Mrs. Rockefeller spent a fortnight writing the first public speech of her life, a gravely caustic lecture on the obligations of wealth. Excerpts...
...Hopkins, you run away with yourself when you say that these colleges are administered by "aristocrats of wealth who claim that they have certain privileges that the rest of us shall not have." Yale is doing all she can, you see, along your own lines of student aid, and if she turned your offer down, it was not because she had any lofty ideas about the evils of educating the poor, as such...