Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, 42-year-old Assen Jordanoff has never flown around the world, but in the last few years he has collected lots of money. In his early U. S. years he was barnstormer, instructor (he gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write...
...became president of the new Sprague Warner, it gave both companies what they most needed. Harry and Maxwell Kunin (who became secretary-treasurer and vice president) got bigger manufacturing and distributing facilities, the prestige of Sprague Warner's name. Sprague Warner got the Kunins. Nobody put up any money. To reports that he had bought out Sprague Warner, Harry Kunin replied: "Where the hell would I lay my hands...
Back in the U. S. after six months and ten days in Europe ("to save money in income tax"), Soprano Grace Moore defended her much-criticized curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor in Cannes last December: "She would have been a royal duchess long ago if she had not been an American. After all, she gave happiness and the courage of his convictions to one man, which is more than most women can do. She deserves a curtsy for that alone...
John Fane, a sleepy, upper-middle-class London publisher, father of four grown children; and Mary Fane, who putters around their country home planning parish fêtes and dinners for twelve. At 53 John finds he has money, leisure, no fun. Soon he has a town apartment, a mistress, no wife...
Prominent among the money donations received from alumni of the College, was a sum for the completion of the Hebrew Collection, by Lucius Littauer '78 of New York City. J. Pierpont Morgan '89 contributed to the general needs of the library. For book purchases, largely toward the William Dean Howells Collection of Letters, 47 "Friends of the Library" contributed...