Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaos", while centering on four or five leading characters, is a series of random shots, quotations, glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene...
...financial Vice-President. This is a happy augury for the future. The second problem, which in spite of idealism depends directly on a balanced budget, has raised more complicated questions. The President has not before him the high purpose of making Harvard a place where any man, regardless of wealth or social position, can achieve an education. In other words, Harvard is to be a place for scholars...
Today's members of the family were, therefore well equipped by wealth and heredity for the task of riding the political horses of France and Germany in the later years when Lorraine was to became one of the major circus rings for their virtuosity. Their long experience made Biley almost a minor to them. When a military advance turned a "French" possession into a "German" one, the De Wendels need have felt no great concern. Regardless of the national tag attached to these mines and smellers, they remained in the placid control of one or the other branches...
Last week. Lord Dewar's nephew, John Arthur Dewar, who inherited his wealth, proved himself also his uncle's heir in the matter of Raeburns. At a Christie's auction in London he bid ?11,025 ($56,337.75) for a Raeburn portrait of two young brothers named Allen. Another, lesser Raeburn was sold in 30 seconds also to Mr. Dewar, for ?4,620 ($23,608.20). A Romney went for $25.217.85. The Raeburn portrait of the Allen brothers brought the top price in London's biggest art sale since Depression...
...estimation, is the lack of any decision as to where we are going. Right and alone right is a middle course of internationalism, based on lower tariffs and a return to a better gold standard. Right and most necessary are intelligent laws on banking, taxation to redistribute wealth, old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Our present situation is a hangover from the "physical, moral, and financial drunk" we have been on ever since 1914. We need fewer monetary doctors, more hard work, and above all, no more panaceas. Winding up his 272-page warning, Author Warburg offers urbane but left...