Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio amendments require the Commission to effect "equitable" assignments of waves and wattages among the broadcasting stations, on a basis of population in five zones of the U. S. The effect may be to cut the franchises of the rich, long-established stations in the New York and Chicago zones to benefit Southern and lower-Midwestern stations. But the bill's flexible language seemed to permit "borrowing" of unused waves and wattages among the zones...
...Better Element." Rich people made such remarks as "No one one knows has been shot...
Over all these flighty, inconsequential doings Excommunicator Cardinal Dubois brooded with troubled dignity last week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich, respected rubber merchant of the firm of Matthes & Bormeester...
...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...