Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then hurrying to some other locality for another speech, and he has charmed and thrilled the masses with his scintillating intellect, his wit, and humor, his Irish pathos, and his dauntless determination to serve his fellow countrymen. He has had arrayed against him nearly every newspaper, practically all the wealth, and influential politicians of the state. ... I dare say, his victory in this campaign will go clown in American history as the very greatest that any officeholder has ever achieved...
...against government regulation of business profits. The Board grew specific about regulation. What about letting the Government set minimum wages and maximum working hours? Yes, replied more than half of the editors. Nearly three-fourths of the editors were sure their communities did not want the Government to redistribute wealth by taxation or any other means. Nine-tenths were against any rise in the national debt. But one New Deal theory which got a thumping favorable majority was one which would, of necessity, increase the public debt or require a considerable redistribution of wealth. Almost two-thirds of the editors...
This was recognition from the President who had promised a New Deal to labor and then condoned the erection of a concentration camp in Georgia; the President who had pledged a redistribution of wealth and then allowed real wages to tumble headlong under his recovery program; the President who had proclaimed that his rule would be one of "enlightenment" and then sanctioned the destruction of food while millions starved; the president who had preached "industrial democracy" and stood by while strikers were slaughtered by his own troops because they dared ask for subsistence; the President who had mouthed the phrases...
...this fabulous gift there were bound to be strings. Otto will have to keep his museum open to the public. And, since it is unlikely that he will be allowed to sell or borrow against his museum's collections, his new-found wealth will remain largely titular. But that Archduke Otto had every intention of collecting in person was made evident last week in a letter he wrote to the peasant villages of Edelsgrub and Premstaetten, which recently made him an honorary citizen. Announcing again his desire to return from exile to Austria, he wrote...
...Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America, the West Indies and many infected regions of the world where the creation of wealth makes expensive effort worth while. But yellow fever has simply been kept away from such regions and by no means wiped off the earth, as most people suppose...