Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train with President Coolidge rode Pentecost Mitchell of Duluth, whose father organized the first mining company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners...
...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
...were beaten and discredited in the primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back $2,500,000 to the city. Thompson's city-comptroller has had to resign, owing to huge deficits in the city's finances. Thompson's rich friend, George F. Getz, has transferred his funds and interest to the political projects of a man who used to handle the Getz trucking interests in Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied...
...Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined to enforce a ruinous wage of 12? per day - the standard pay for such labor elsewhere in the Congo being...
...have many rich relatives, but they have no money for their poor relatives...