Word: wealthier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trustees played safe by canceling Negro Graham's invitation to speak. According to one board member, there were rumors that some of the wealthier church members might withdraw their financial support if Graham appeared in the pulpit. "The only issue confronting the Miami Shores Community Church," said the board member, "is whether it can afford to have a minister who has caused a serious division in its membership...
...stern, strict, and snobbish-a cold facsimile of an English public school. Boys were belted for the most minor offenses; some tried to run away. Sons of the poor, who came on scholarships, were called "rats" by wealthier students. St. Albans School for boys, owned by the Cathedral Foundation (Episcopal) in Washington, D.C., was that sort of place 20 years...
Monitors were bribed for class lists. Tutoring school pamphlets were found in every mail box and on every bulletin board. Their advertising was the financial backbone of college publications. Students who tried to get an education the hard way were subjected to the disdain of their wealthier or less scrupulous associates...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...
...steak and potatoes and apple pie to a better-balanced diet. Too many of us drink milk dutifully, but highballs gladly." If the U.S. were to try to supply all needs (minimum standards of health and decency for everyone) as well as all demands (all the goods which the wealthier want to purchase), then the estimates would have to be raised. The U.S. would have to turn out goods & services worth $200 billion by 1950 and $219 billion...