Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators, such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Since General Butler's departure, Philadelphia policemen have paid as high as $1,000 for the privilege of serving on the famed Butler Enforcement Unit No. 1. Such evidence reeks of bribery...
...Jesus came to New York today, He would not be identified with any . . . Rotary club," said the Rev. John A. Vollenweider, associate pastor of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. "He [Christ] . . . was mindful of the need of those who were rich in this world's goods, but had a sense of spiritual poverty...
Last week the American Committee of the Cité Universitaire in Paris acknowledged a gift of $25,000 from rich Bernard Mannes Baruch of Manhattan. Mr. Baruch's money will provide for a room in which, if he so desires, will be placed a tablet with his name engraved thereon. Should he further desire, Banker Baruch could have ten rooms in the University, each inscribed with his name, as each $2,500 is entitled to a tablet. Mr. Baruch, however, did not ask for this, and the Committee, passing over the point, reported that...
These are the gaming tables of lower Manhattan. The gamblers are U. S. traders. The stakes are the world's rich supplies of cotton and rubber, of cocoa and spices and coffee. Near Hanover Square are clustered Manhattan's famed commodity exchanges...
Kotaro Wakao, young, rich, potent Japanese businessman sported a little with Manhattan newspapermen last week. Overworked, he was in the U. S. as part of a half-year furlough from affairs.* Energetic he took his relaxation by studying U. S. factories that he had not seen a decade ago. At that time he studied at Columbia University. Courteous, he visited and thanked bankers who this spring sold $70,000,000 bonds of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. (TIME, June 18). Kotaro Wakao's father, Shohachi Wakao, is Tokyo Electric's president. Discerning international bankers...