Wealth

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67-70	May 2000 Article Show them the money: On winning equal rights for wealthy Americans By Nicholas Knowles Bromell SEE ALSO: Rich people; Wealth PDF IMAGES
33	June 1997 Readings/Article Ted Turner's big letdown By Ted Turner SEE ALSO: Billionaires; Finance, Personal; Turner, Ted; Wealth PDF IMAGES
19-21	May 1996 Readings/Article The bull market in inequality SEE ALSO: Investments; 1981-; Wealth PDF IMAGES
20	March 1995 Readings/Article Albania: The next paradise SEE ALSO: Albania; Emigration and immigration; Kurtz, Gerhard; How to become rich in Albania (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
28-30	March 1995 Readings/Article The currency of dreams By James Buchan SEE ALSO: Bank notes; Collectors and collecting; Finance, Personal; Buchan, James; Money; Wealth PDF IMAGES
17-18	October 1991 Readings/Article Of a conservative (created) caste By Charles A. Murray SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Wealth PDF IMAGES
10-11	June 1987 Notebook/Article Love or money By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Mass media and sex; Scandals; Sex customs; Wealth PDF IMAGES
12-13	November 1985 Notebook/Article The American dialectic By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution); Freedom of speech; 1981-1989; Wealth PDF IMAGES
41-60	June 1978 Article The wealth of Washington By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Civil service; Government consultants; Government contractors; Wealth PDF IMAGES
79-92	April 1976 Article A kind word about money By Roger Starr SEE ALSO: Money; Wealth PDF IMAGES
5	March 1975 Wraparound/Article Against opulence By Paolo Soleri SEE ALSO: Luxury; Wealth PDF IMAGES
35-39	June 1956 Article Take back your sable! Or, what's so good about good times? By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Depressions; Quality of life; Wealth PDF IMAGES
58-63	January 1952 Article The unseemly economics of opulence By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Social legislation; Wealth PDF IMAGES
34-36	July 1949 Article How rich can your children be? By Milo Perkins SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Economic forecasting; Wealth PDF IMAGES
632-634	June 1945 Another man's poison/Article Another man's poison By George W. Martin SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
55-66	December 1936 Article Living on $50,000 a year SEE ALSO: Accounting; Home economics; Rich people; Upper class families; Wealth PDF IMAGES
381-384	August 1934 Editor's easy chair/Article Our plant and its prospects By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Wallace, Henry Agard; 1901-1945; Statesmanship and religion (Book); Technological innovations; Wealth PDF IMAGES
253-254	July 1934 Editor's easy chair/Article Habits of money, people, and drink By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Rich people; Wealth PDF IMAGES
381-384	August 1932 Editor's easy chair/Article Questions asked and some guesses By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: 1929-1933; 1932; Wealth PDF IMAGES
640	April 1932 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
440-447	March 1930 Article Educational leadership in America: Can wealth teach itself? By Alexander Meiklejohn SEE ALSO: Parent-teacher relationships; Teacher-student relationships; Wealth PDF IMAGES
389-392	February 1930 Editor's easy chair/Article Riches, news, and cures By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Fascism; Financial crises; Jewish-Arab relations; 1917-1949; Prohibition; Spiritual healing; Stock exchanges; Stock Market Crash, 1929; Wealth PDF IMAGES
170-179	January 1930 Article Can business be civilized? By Harold Joseph Laski SEE ALSO: Big business; Businessmen; Capitalism; Social change; Wealth PDF IMAGES
653-656	October 1929 Editor's easy chair/Article Power By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Ambition; Antiquities; Historic preservation; Power (Social sciences); Social status; Wealth PDF IMAGES
721-731	May 1929 Article Must our children start where we did? By Emily Newell Blair SEE ALSO: Parent and adult child; Success; Wealth; Young men PDF IMAGES
70-80	December 1928 Article The cost of prosperity: Are you and I better off than we were? By James Truslow Adams SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Luxury; Mass production; Wealth PDF IMAGES
125-128	December 1927 Editor's easy chair/Article The strain of current life By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Democracy; Mental illness; Psychiatric hospitals; Wealth PDF IMAGES
469-474	September 1927 Article A new adventure for millionaries: The duty of wealth to public service By Oswald Garrison Villard SEE ALSO: 1923-1929; Rich people; Upper class families; Wealth PDF IMAGES
133-143	July 1926 Article This vulgarity of ours By Katharine Fullerton Gerould SEE ALSO: Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis); Lewis, Sinclair; Views on vulgarity; Wealth PDF IMAGES
305-310	August 1924 Article You cannot buy it all By Frederick Palmer SEE ALSO: Avarice; Wealth PDF IMAGES
397-400	February 1921 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Distribution (Economic theory); Inheritance and succession; Liberty; Millionaires; Wealth PDF IMAGES
610-616	March 1916 Article The new wealth By Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl SEE ALSO: Distribution (Economic theory); 1865-1918; Wealth PDF IMAGES
890-895	November 1910 Article Things that are worth while By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Interpersonal relations; Suffrage; Wealth PDF IMAGES
322	July 1907 Editor's drawer/Article Revised version SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Biblical teaching; Sunday schools; Wealth PDF IMAGES
610-613	September 1906 Article Exclusiveness By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Income distribution; Wealth PDF IMAGES
450-453	August 1906 Article Wealth and democracy in American colleges By Arthur Twining Hadley SEE ALSO: Sociological aspects; Wealth PDF IMAGES
320	July 1906 Editor's drawer/Article Beyond dreams of avarice SEE ALSO: African American women; Laundresses; Wealth PDF IMAGES
67-70	December 1905 Article The integrity of American character By Grover Cleveland SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Character; Ethics; Political corruption; Wealth PDF IMAGES
148-151	December 1905 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Capitalists and financiers; Wealth PDF IMAGES
966-970	May 1901 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Evolution (Biology); Kansas; Lynching; Military education; Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate; Philosophy; Revenge; The individual; a study of life and death (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
199-204	July 1897 Article The modern American mood By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Patriotism; Representative government and representation; Wealth PDF IMAGES
146-148	June 1897 Editor's study/Article — (I) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Investments, Foreign; Wealth PDF IMAGES
969	November 1892 Editor's drawer/Article Broad views SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
800	April 1892 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Stereotype (Psychology); Wealth PDF IMAGES
483-484	February 1892 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Wealth; Youth PDF IMAGES
474-475	February 1891 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Carnegie, Andrew; Benefactors; Career in philanthropy; Charitable bequests; Charitable contributions; Endowments; Cooper, Peter; Rich people; The gospel of wealth (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
158-160	December 1888 Editor's study/Article — (I-V) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Charities; Wealth PDF IMAGES
250-257	July 1886 Article Social studies. I.—The nature of the railway problem By Richard Theodore Ely SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Freight; 1865-1918; Rates; Trusts, Industrial; Wealth PDF IMAGES
658	March 1885 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Biblical teaching; Sisters; Wealth PDF IMAGES
803-804	April 1884 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
305-307	January 1883 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Death and burial; Shaw, Francis George; Wealth PDF IMAGES
960-962	November 1882 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Rich people; Wealth PDF IMAGES
918-924	November 1880 Article Securing a competence By T.M. (Titus Munson) Coan SEE ALSO: Investments; Stockholders; Wealth PDF IMAGES
301	July 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Charity; Generosity; Wealth PDF IMAGES
544	September 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Generosity; Wealth PDF IMAGES
544	September 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Long Island; Wealth PDF IMAGES
136	June 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
659-660	April 1866 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Wealth PDF IMAGES
685-689	October 1860 Article “Unto this last.” II.—The veins of wealth By John Ruskin SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Economics; Ruskin, John; Political and social views; Wealth PDF IMAGES
126-127	June 1860 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Acquisitions; Museums; Wealth PDF IMAGES
693-698	April 1858 Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Financial crises; Wealth PDF IMAGES

PAGE MISSING 489-490	August 1889 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Elite (Social sciences); Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth); The day will come; a novel (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 994-995	May 1889 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Farjeon, B.L. (Benjamin Leopold); English fiction; The peril of Richard Pardon, a novel (Book); Tramps; Wealth PDF IMAGES

Feb 2005	Average total cost for a U.S. eighty-year-old to live out the rest of his or her days on a luxury cruise ship: $230,497	Harper's Index Source: Lee Lindquist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago)
Dec 2003	Percentage change since last year in the number of U.S. millionaires: -3	Harper's Index Source: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (N.Y.C.)
Aug 2003	Percentage change since 2001 in the median annual compensation of CEOs of major U.S. defense contractors: +79	Harper's Index Source: United for a Fair Economy (Boston)
Feb 2003	Minimum number of yachts that were donated to U.S. charities in 2001: 527	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Sep 2000	Average number of new homes built each day in New York's East Hampton last year: 0.93	Harper's Index Source: Suffolk County Planning Commission (Hauppage, N.Y.)
Apr 2000	Percentage change between 1975 and 1998 in the size of a new U.S. home: +33	Harper's Index Source: National Association of Home Builders (Washington)
Nov 1999	Average percentage of revenue of a Fortune 500 company last year that was profit: 5.3	Harper's Index Source: Fortune (N.Y.C.)
Mar 1999	Severance pay received by Viacom CEO Frank Biondi after he was fired by the company in 1996: $15,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Viacom Inc. (N.Y.C.)/Harper's research
Feb 1999	Amount that Nike CEO Philip Knight was paid last year after his annual compensation was cut by 42 percent: $1,680,000	Harper's Index Source: Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.)
Sep 1998	Amount that Bear, Stearns' chairman donated to a New York hospital last June to sponsor Viagra for the poor: $1,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Bear, Stearns &Co. Inc. (N.Y.C.)
Aug 1998	Ratio of the number of raises Congress has granted itself since 1938 to those it has granted minimum-wage workers: 21:19	Harper's Index Source: Office of Senator Edward Kennedy (Washington)/Congressional Accountability Project (Washington)
Jul 1998	Percentage of all privately owned bison in the U.S. that belong to Ted Turner: 7	Harper's Index Source: National Bison Association (Denver)
Jun 1998	Number of cities that require companies receiving public funds to pay a “living wage” above the federal legal minimum: 11	Harper's Index Source: The Living Wage, New Press (N.Y.C.)
Apr 1998	Ratio of the net worth of the richest 1 percent of U.S. households to the size of the national debt: 2:1	Harper's Index Source: Professor Edward N. Wolff, N.Y.U. (N.Y.C.)/Congressional Budget Office

December 7, 2006	Democrats in Congress announced that beginning in January members of the House would work five days a week. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Georgia), who spends more than half his week at home. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families--that's what this says.” The Democrats were also trying to stop smoking on the Hill, and attempting to block a $3,300 congressional raise.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source 1: Washington Post Source 2: Washington Post Source 3: Washington Post
April 18, 2006	Singer Mary J. Blige said that she had found God. “My God is a God who wants me to have things,” she said. “He wants me to bling.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
October 3, 2000	The U.S. Census Bureau announced that Americans were wealthier than they used to be, though only about as wealthy as they were ten years ago.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

486	August 1884 Editor's drawer/Poem Erminie By George W. Birdseye SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
449	March 1867 Poem If I were rich By N.G. Shepherd SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES
684-686	April 1861 Poem The three kings By Thomas Dunn English SEE ALSO: Coal; Cotton; Gold; Wealth PDF IMAGES
211-212	July 1860 Poem A voice from the street. “A palace and a prison on each hand” By L.A. Bargie SEE ALSO: Poverty; Wealth PDF IMAGES
284	January 1854 Editor's drawer/Poem Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Wealth PDF IMAGES

122-124	December 1927 The lion's mouth/Fiction Sour grapes By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: College teachers; Wealth PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 423-430	February 1901 Fiction Making progress By Grace Elizabeth King SEE ALSO: New Orleans; Wealth PDF IMAGES
542-548	March 1885 Fiction A house built upon the sand By Burton, Mrs. Harrison SEE ALSO: Didactic fiction; Wealth PDF IMAGES
598-605	March 1883 Fiction Torricelli By M. Howland SEE ALSO: Didactic fiction; Wealth PDF IMAGES
86-113	December 1865 Fiction Our mutual friend. In four books.—Book the fourth. A turning (chaps. XII-XVI, postscript) By Charles Dickens SEE ALSO: Cases; Mistaken identity; Wealth; Wills PDF IMAGES
361-365	February 1861 Fiction A most fortunate man By C.E. Billington SEE ALSO: Rich people; Wealth PDF IMAGES

45	December 1986 Quotation A raw plutocracy: 1924 By Irving Babbit SEE ALSO: Competition; Wealth PDF IMAGES

648	September 1915 Editor's drawer/Joke And so would others SEE ALSO: Men; Wealth PDF IMAGES
484	August 1915 Editor's drawer/Joke Outdone SEE ALSO: Playmates; Skunks; Wealth PDF IMAGES
807	April 1915 Editor's drawer/Joke Untold SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Tax evasion; Wealth PDF IMAGES

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