Word: briton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incomplete later figures suggested that the British subject still led in being most heavily taxed. Over a long period the average Briton has become so accustomed to this that he often, half-humorously, half-proudly, boasts about his proven ability to thrive while carrying the world's heaviest per capita tax load...
...Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President of Mexico. The issue, according to Briton Rickett, is whether the Fascist Dictators can be kept from hogging Mexican bargain oil and this precious fluid saved for the great Democracies. "My motives," announced Mr. Rickett, "are patriotic...
...Briton...
Death came, as it must to all men, to Briton Hadden in 1929. Ill for two months with a streptococcus infection, he died on February 27-six years almost to the hour after he and Henry Luce had sent to press the first issue of the first newsmagazine...
...died of the same disease (endocarditis) as Lord Northcliffe, famed British publisher for whom he had a lifelong admiration. As a memorial to Briton Hadden, Editor Luce and his many other friends erected a handsome Gothic building on the Yale campus to house the Yale Daily News, of which he had been editor eight years before...