Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims. For a period he even gave up his office with the rich bank to become a member of the (perhaps) richer Guggenheim Bros. firm. The Guaranty's resources then were just about a half-billion. But the War was on in Europe. Morton died; Hemphill had become chairman, Mr. Sabin president. Under President Sabin the Guaranty sold vast bond issues for the Allies, later vaster ones for the U. S. The War over...
...Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...
...Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world"-richer than England and all her colonies, than France and Germany combined, . . . "onefourth of the world's wealth...
While Nicholas Frederick Brady's colleagues serenely created a new billion dollar institution, he serenely basked in the May proximity of an older and a richer one, the Church of Rome. The Bradys have always been observant Catholics and, with the accumulation of wealth, helpful ones...
...aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been put on a sound basis. If the Club's development...