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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauteous wife, his four chil dren, his entourage of valets, maids, nurses, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, in the U. S. embassy at Paris. President Hoover last week sanctioned publication of news that Senator Edge will be the next Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Timothy Herrick, deceased (TIME, April 8). Rich, social, commonsensical if not brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late as a Hoover _ cam paigner last year. In Paris he will be happy indeed because "just across the channel, Charley" (TIME, May 27) will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Edge to Paris | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...rich man who owns no private car may rent one from the Pullman Co. at a minimum rate of $175 for two days or less and $75 per day thereafter, in addition to carrying charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: No More Free Rides | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...avoid these charges many a rich man, instead of owning his own private car, buys sufficient stock to make himself a director of some railroad, to rate an official private car with free transportation all over the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: No More Free Rides | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...months Mayor Walker had been keeping city voters in a state of theoretical suspense as to his candidacy.* He had let it be known that he was considering a return to private life to get rich, that he had many an offer to capitalize his personality. Last week he put all his offers aside, accepted the "call of public duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who Could Say 'No'? | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave the alarm (TIME, May 6), there has been little or no production on thousands of rich Florida acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Shakedown | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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