Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing was getting considerably out of hand, and Ferguson was looking hard for some way to get it back on the track. At one point, exasperated by Hughes's free-swinging charges, he lectured the witness: "If you believe that because of your great wealth and access to certain channels of publicity you can take control over the committee, you are mistaken. ... It is apparent that you are trying to discredit one member . . . but your prime motive is to discredit the entire committee." Angrily, Ferguson added that there would be no more "side issues." By the end of that...
...Vogue ever since 1914, five years after the late Conde Nast bought it. In & out of her chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled...
...reasonable? Let us stop insulting the rest of the world. Let us stop wasting priceless energy and billions in wealth merely to build a larger chip for our shoulder. (History has proved that the world will not be intimidated.) Let's apply that energy and wealth to making friends; to lending a helping hand; to being honestly sincere in striving for peace on earth. Let's abolish the hypocrisy that's leading us all to our foolish destruction...
...succeeded was Carter Davidson, 41, president of Schenectady's Union College. Said he, at the University of Buffalo: "Americans need to be warned about . . . words and ideas which look much alike but have different effects. For example, Americans often confuse size with importance . . . speed with progress . . . money with wealth . . . authority with wisdom . . . religion with theology . . . excitement with pleasure...
...This war of religions is now seriously on. . . . The practical facts are that Communism offers a recipe for a good life in this world, and it is firing men's minds; that vast numbers of the workers believe the Church to be a reactionary protector of wealth and privilege. . . . There are some bold spirits who talk of a new positive crusade...