Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic principles" were fear of Soviet Russia and the U. S. (see above). Its chief "proposal" was an impassioned sales talk for the Army's pet system of State Capitalism. "Japan's economic system," it harangued, "creates class differences, enables the few to hoard wealth, causes poverty and unemployment, and . . . seriously restricts the national budget so that even the most vital needs of national defense are not attainable. ... It is desirable for the people to abandon the selfish, individualistic economic sense, to awaken to moral principles and to hasten to establish an economy embodying the Empire...
...composition and public speaking courses, there is still little chance for actual experimentation and presentation along this line. Such a group among the students could study the stage arts, write plays of their own, and produce an interesting and varied program throughout the year. Then, too, there is a wealth of dramatic literature which would serve their purpose well, short productions and one-act plays, that require little actual trouble beyond the performance of the play itself. There is no great need for elaborate productions and intricate stage settings; the professional stage of Boston can supply that; but there...
...President quoted four people-all chosen for the conservative sanctity which surrounds their names. To square himself with the ancient virtues, he endorsed Benjamin Franklin's apothegm that "the way to wealth is through work." To justify the "interference of government in business" he quoted Abraham Lincoln and the G. O. P.'s most famed Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To justify the New Deal's constitutionality he quoted "the great Chief Justice White...
...Civil War, concludes: "The essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend of the age, to lose its wealth, and to be left in rum and without its proper and essential influence on the rest of the nation, which sorely needed, as it needs today, what the South had to give." Because "no type of property now owned in the United States is sectional, as slavery property was," Author Adams sees...
...President of the United States had the political wisdom to quote Benjamin Franklin in a recent speech. He referred to Franklin's statement that wealth was acquired by honest, hard work. But he failed to add that one of Franklin's famous maxims was: "A penny saved is a penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin...