Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet, as presented to the Reichstag, is exactly as originally announced (TIME, Feb. 7), except that the important Ministry of Interior was given at the last moment to Herr Walter von Keudell, a rich young landed Junker; and Dr. Oskar Hergt was shifted from the portfolio of Interior to that of Justice...
...heavy-swung, dark-curtained private car rumbled from Mexico City last week to Laredo, Texas. It was the Hidalgo, sumptuous equipage of rich Seņor Alberto Pani, said to be the only Mexican statesman whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers (TIME...
Eight jazz Jupiters-Paul Whiteman, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, George Olson, Roger Wolff Kahn, Fred Rich, B. A. Rolfé, Ernie Golden, assembled in Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy...
...then treated by surgery, there would be no more death rate from cancer." For such publicity the society is soliciting $1,000,000 to assure an annual income of $50,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses of world cancer authorities who came to the International Symposium on Cancer Control at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., last September (TIME, Oct. 4) and to solicit more donations...
...aspect far more important, has been his City & Suburban Homes Co. He is its chairman, and for 30 years has been using its funds to build sanitary tenements that could be rented at low sums. His method of doing this is very simple. He gets his building money from rich men, who are more than glad to get 5% certain earnings on their investments. With this cheap construction money he puts up apartments that rent, on the average, for $2.53 a room a week. In the latest buildings each apartment has electric lights and private bath. In older constructions, lacking...