Word: well-to-do
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...editorial in the June Forum attacks the grim problem of employment facing so many of the alumni of 1932 by suggesting that the well-to-do graduates spend at least two years abroad "exploring the minds and strange conduct of the very different peoples who make our planet so much unalike." The editor cites the fact that the number of men from the Harvard class of 1932 who intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these...
...Sanford Cohen is a scion of a Jewish family resident in the South since before the Revolution. His father Philip Lawrence Cohen, left The Citadel at Charleston, S. C. to fight for the Confederacy, later married Ellen Wright ot Augusta, Ga. Senator Cohen married Julia Lowry Clarke, daughter of well-to-do Atlanta Christians. He attends Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian attends Church...
...political dream is the improvement of the Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango rivers in his section. He got the War Department to survey these streams for possible developments. His critics declare that his activity for "pork barrel" legislation helps to keep him in his House seat. Outside Congress: Fairly well-to-do, he owns a row house in Foxhall Village, a development in Georgetown, lives there with his wife and young son. He drives a Pierce Arrow, wears glasses. likes to pitch horseshoes, take long solitary walks. Formal Washington society interests him little or none. Beetle-browed, tightlipped, he dresses well...
...argued that it was much better to "soak the rich" than to "soak the poor" if somebody had to be "soaked." The Federal Government today is supported by only about 2,000,000 tax payers out of 125,000,000 and therefore, it was argued, increased rates on this well-to-do class are only a change in the degree of taxation, not in principle. To tax a million-dollar-per-year man $500,000 is no more "confiscation" than to tax him $1. To the charge that they had run riot, Democrats pointed to the fact that the proposals...
...Niles, Ohio last week, James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a well-to-do contractor, was kidnapped on his way to school by two men in a brown coupe. A minister's wife witnessed the abduction. Next day Contractor Dejute received a note demanding $10,000 unless he wanted his boy back ''in installments." Two days after that a posse of local police found the Dejute boy alive and well in a house not ten miles from his home. The kidnappers were found with him. He had been concealed behind a false wall, said he was well-fed but sleepy...