Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief interest of the week was the report that the enigmatical, cosmopolitan multimillionaire, Sir Basil Zaharoff, had given 50,000,000 lire ($2,160,000) to the Greek Government for the payment of the indemnity asked for by Italy in her ultimatum. (TiME, Sept. 10.) Sir Basil, "citizen of the world," noted philanthropist, famed international financier, notorious "mystery man," born in Egypt, reputed subject of Greece and Great Britain, citizen of France, denied that he had given money to Greece. Inquired The Wall Street Journal: New York World cable says you deposited two and a half million dollars to guarantee...
...Basil replied...
Fifty-three countries sent 817 delegates to a twelve-day conference at Portschach (southern Austria) to discuss The Place of the Boy in the Nations of the World. The official language, in the words of an Englishman, Basil Matthews, was " English, or perhaps I should rather say, American." The conference was deeply stirred by reports of boy labor under terrible conditions in the developing factory system of the Far East...
...Spanish Gold or Lalage's Trovers. Nor does the inimitable J. J. Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers...
...Gaekwar of Baroda: " I am credited with being one of the twelve richest men in the world: Henry Ford, $550,000,000; John D. Rockefeller, $500,000,000; The Duke of Westminster, $150,000,000; myself, $125,000,000; Sir Basil Zaharoff, $100,000,000; Hugo Stinnes, $100,000,000; Baron H. Mitsui, $100,000,000; Baron K. Iwasaki, $100,000,000; T. B. Walker, perhaps less than...