Word: affluently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying "poor as a Chinaman" apply less than to Joe Shoong. His 1937 salary was $141,000; National Dollar dividends brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house in Oakland. He has five cars...
...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...point would soon be reached where the tuition and meal-rates of each student would have to be raised also. This is a step that may have to be taken in the very near future, but the fact remains that of and by itself the University is not over-affluent, as its funds are restricted, and it is not so wealthy that it may meet all demands made upon it, without putting pressure upon the students. If the present trend of government inflation continues, this situation will become even more acute, as even more expenditures will be necessary to meet...
...these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
...flood disasters in Ohio and Illinois, the local organization issued an appeal for contributions of money and clothes to aid the destitute and homeless. Harvard was very generous in its response; one undergraduate gave a check for $300, and together with the donations of less charitable or affluent colleagues, about $500 in cash and quite a few clothes were received...