Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rich Man's Magazine...
TIME is my favorite magazine. In St. Petersburg, Fla., recently I made a canvass of a number of newsstands before I found a copy of TIME. When found, the man behind the counter remarked when he handed it to me, "This is only a rich man's magazine." When asked why he thought so, he said: "One never sees the portrait of any other than a rich man, on the front cover." He challenged me to name a single exception. I could not do it. Are there...
Actually, in the words of the late Baron Albert Rothschild of Vienna, "The House of Rothschild is so rich that it cannot do bad business." It has done hundreds of times such "business" as to take over securities at 100, send them to 130 by the sheer weight of the Rothschild name, sell out next day at a profit of 30, then depress the securities to 70 by announcing the securities had been abandoned by the Rothschilds, and finally buy them back with a total profit of 60% on the whole manipulation...
...Where Mr. Mosley was recently elected (TIME, Jan. 3), during a riotous campaign in which his rich wife (nee Carzon) kissed many a brat, while Premier Baldwin's son Oliver campaigned for Mr. Mosley, and the Premier's daughter Betty campaigned against...
...ecclesiast spoke. "I hope," he said, "that this girl will grow into womanhood, ripe and rich, to spread her teachings and faith as beautifully as the flower promises...