Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richest Girl in the World (RKO). Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is a girl of fabulous wealth whose upbringing has been so secluded that no newspaper morgue contains a picture of her since infancy. This makes it easy for her to insure her privacy by impersonating her private secretary (Fay Wray), having her secretary impersonate Dorothy Hunter. When the young man Dorothy loves (Joel McCrea) appears, one deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than...
...heart many a pious U. S. farmer firmly believes that the great Drought of 1934 was the work of God, angry at Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags of coffee...
...trusted adviser to another crusading Democratic President. In the first dizzy months of the New Deal, Jimmy Warburg was the only banking adviser the President had. The quick-witted, versatile young millionaire was no traditionalist himself. He admitted that silver might be useful. He recognized a maldistribution of wealth. Fact was, on all social questions he hewed close to the Roosevelt line. But, with nearly a century and a half of banking tradition behind him, Jimmy Warburg could not continue under a chief who upset the London Economic Conference (TIME, July...
...with the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion," with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey's charts and figures the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, despite the claims of the boomtime-era bankers and statesmen, or the promises of Niraism, is tragic, but under the system unavoidable. In a chapter called "The Crisis of the American Dream," Author Corey writes glowingly of the early American Democracy before it was overtaken by modern capitalism. Originating...
Backfield prospects are not too bright although there is a wealth of material coming up from the Freshman and Jayvee teams of last year...