Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This measure was taken for the avowed purpose of attracting wealthy persons to the state-helping it to boom. What Nature has done climatically to improve the constitutions of the dyspeptic rich at Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, the Law will do for the fortunes of the same people by a most salubrious financial climate...
...plot is built around a rich heir who allowed a friend to take his college education in his name while he was going through all the prerequisites for the return of the prodigal. He is in love with the daughter of his guardian, but when another girl sues him for breach of promise the conventionally gruff old man cuts off his allowance and forbids him to see his daughted. Then comes the need of money, and the inspiration for a new way to make...
...student who had enjoyed the college education turned out to be a genius, with a scheme for a new form of paint drier. If he could finance his invention, all concerned could become rich:-- wherefore the idea for a new kind of business, the American Promoting Company, whose aim it was to finance indigent men of genius...
...journals ignorantly write about Britain's oil interests in Mosul and lead their readers to suppose that the recent controversy was in reality over oil. This is a misconception. The settlement reached had to do only with the frontier. The question of whether the Mosul and its rich oil district is, or is not, to revert to Turkish sovereignty has yet to be decided by the League...
...party which looks to the ending of current abuses by political means and to the gradual modification of present institutions by pearceful methods. Political interest in Japan, excluding a majority of the workers who are not yet conscious of anything beyond the daily rice-basket, is divided between the rich, hereditary nobles, concentrating political and economic power in their hands, and the no less bitter Socialists who wish to destroy that power...