Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court of Claims for no better reason, it seemed, than that Mr. Green had chronically disagreed with Secretary Mellon's ideas on taxation, particularly the inheritance tax, which the Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from...
...father entrusts his business to the direction of a son whom he has trained to follow in his footsteps. A rich, notorious, client places a-to say the least-large order. Father and Son live in the same neighborhood, on friendly terms. Is it likely that Father, however inactive in the business, will remain totally ignorant of the Son's large order during several weeks when Son is executing...
...Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich western part of Colorado, southern Wyoming, eastern Utah...
Asked about the grain shortage in Russia (TIME, Feb. 27), he replied: "I cannot understand why there should be breadlines and unemployment in a nation so rich as America. . . . Nowhere in Russia, regardless of whether the nation is prospering or not, will you find men without coats, standing in breadlines, waiting for a handout. . . . That is one thing which the Soviet has accomplished which is not a theory but a fact...
Leeds-Anastasia. Rich Mrs. William B. Leeds of Manhattan, née Princess Xenia of Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...