Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. William Goadby Loew was some 25 years older, somewhat heavier, a great deal richer and a grandfather. Nevertheless, few accounts of any first flight social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...
When Mr. Mellon took over the Treasury Department for President Harding in 1921, few citizens outside of Pennsylvania had ever even heard his name. Gradually they learned that only the Rockefellers and the Fords were richer than their Secretary of the Treasury; that he had made his wealth in aluminum, steel, coal, oil, banks; that he invested his profits in the finest of old masters; that personally he was a shy, modest man with a quiet charm. When he started to reduce the Public Debt, with a consequent reduction in taxation, enthusiastic G.O. Partisans tagged him with the silly title...
...Casey; George Busbar & John Tuerk, producers). Playwright O'Casey's fantasy prompted Manhattan reviewers to go on record as follows: "Nothing so grand has risen in our impoverished theatre. . . . It is a humbling job to write about a dynamic drama like Within the Gates. . . . The theatre is richer today than it was 24 hours ago. . . . In comparison with Within the Gates, most of the plays that have come from overseas in recent years seem but feeble little fingers poking vainly at the moon.' " Irishman O'Casey, who had been brought from England...
...proposal to permit "translation" of bishops from one diocese to another. This was a victory for the forces led by Bishop Manning of rich, potent New York, who argued that a bishop should take his diocese as a life work and not cherish ambitions for a richer and more potent one. But Bishop Manning suffered defeat on another matter when the Bishops voted (49-to-38) that the Church's 213 deaconesses may marry and, furthermore, preach. ¶ Ordered by the Presiding Bishop to dispose "once and for all" of the seventh plea for reinstatement of Heretic William Montgomery...
Early in the Century when Roosevelt I was jousting with Big Business, the idea of a Federal incorporation law was seriously pondered. But, as the nation grew richer, the subject of corporate reform grew less interesting. Last week, under Roosevelt II national charters were up again, this time in the sixth report of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on their findings of the past three years. Said the Committee...