Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech. But Mr. Welles is also the man who wrote for Secretary Hull an extremely sharp note on Mexican...
...years. Her brother, George J. Gould, whom the others accused of malfeasance, was finally removed as a trustee. In the end, although no wrong-doing was found against her, the trustees settled the case for $20,000,000. On the stand she testified: "I do not know how much money I gave away, but I think I gave away most of it." Day after the case was settled she resigned as a trustee. The settlement and her charities practically wiped out her capital but she still had the income...
...play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money to fight his own people...
...oldtime telegrapher and Hearst feature salesman, runs things at the Canton headquarters. Last week it was reported that: 1) Brush-Moore has taken a one-month option to buy the Curtis estate's holdings; 2) representatives of Ohio banks are inspecting the property to see about advancing the money; 3) the option expires January 16 and if it is not taken up, the Boks may let Publisher Martin stay on the job for a while...
...other words, in the main they were wash sales to create a profit that did not exist, and what is missing is the alleged profits plus expenses and blackmail money paid to maintain...