Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Share the Wealth. In Albuquerque, one week after he reported to police that his unlocked room had been burglarized, B. F. Smith reported to police that his room had been burglarized again, admitted that he had left it unlocked...
Actually the aim of the Government is not to strip stockholders of their wealth. Socialists believe that the Bank of England helped to wreck the 1931 Labor Government by holding back credit. They want to guard against this by controlling the bank so that credit will be available for nationalization of industries. A longtime bank employe summed up: "Won't make no difference, so long as we get paid on Friday...
With Hercules and his shipmates, Graves becomes an ancient Greek, moving among demigods and goddesses, myths and monsters with an easy familiarity and a wealth of erudite detail; both sometimes seem too much of a good thing. Atomic-age readers, ill-attuned to the leisurely, formal talk of Myth-Age Greeks, may find themselves skipping some of the longer speeches...
...Heavy industry, manufacturing, merchant marine and science should be allowed to recover only within the bounds of a restricted Japan's peacetime needs. The imperial household, owner of much of Japan's industrial wealth, should not be exempt...
...America and Europe," he has decided, "have come to a final parting of the roads." Separated by an unbridgeable "spiritual chasm," America and Germany today represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...