Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breastworks and spoke first, for three hours. He charged the tariff bill with putting useless and ineffective duties on farm products many of which are not imported at all, with taxing, exorbitantly, the things the farmer buys, with taxing necessities of the public more than the luxuries of the rich, with increasing duties for industries already prosperous, with giving the President too much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked, that would collect $146,000,000 duty on sugar which farmers and everyone else buys, and $103,000,000 duty...
...Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...
...British Dominion, and the only one who keeps an airplane in the cellar of his house, is Australia's brisk, zestful Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 46. Last week he fought and lost on the most vital issue in Australian policies. One vote cost him defeat- the vote of a rich, debonair yachtsman who raced in Sir Thomas Lipton's defeated Shamrock...
...from its humble beginnings in 1908 the Graduate School of Business Administration finds itself today in a position rich not only in its unparalleled facilities and prestige but in the brilliant tradition of its social and economic service to the nation. The opening of another term in this succession of years devoted to a realization of the emerging significance of business as a profession presents an occasion to consider the potential value of the School both to its students as individuals and to the general public...
...these battered old situations Author Hurst handles with a certain sureness that necessarily comes with tautology. Her acuteness of observation has enabled her to catalog the trappings of the rich and a few of their more obvious emotions. Her treatment of the story and the setting will facilitate its conversion for the movies. It is to be hoped, however, that some of the dialogue will be rearranged before it is squawked out from behind a flickering screen...