Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mutual agreement this was later raised to $350,000. It is now apparent that the final cost of the building will be nearer $450.000. This sort of thing has happened often in Wright's career, and the hostile argument runs that few businessmen are as able as rich Mr. Johnson to stand the gaff of perfectionism at like cost...
Wise Girl (RKO Radio), a befuddled whimsicality, starts off by explaining that all its characters are fictitious, proceeds to prove them superfluous. A very rich girl...
...Whitney Museum, a memorial show of the water colors of Charles Demuth surrounded a festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris...
Gerald Loeb is a reasonably rich man with a farm in Redding, Conn., and a mind far more liberal and articulate than most of his fellow brokers. In Wall Street he is noted because he writes E. F. Hutton & Co.'s market letters and because he espouses an unorthodox theory whose kernel is that investment as generally practiced is not as safe as intelligent speculation. This conception is unlikely to endear him to SEC interrogators but thus far has pleased his clients. In hectic September, 1929, just before ''the crash," Broker Loeb's market letter declared...
Morgan's European Travel Journal gives a better picture of the man than of his achievements or his professional standing. But it suggests the rich observations that may remain in the 18,000 unpublished pages of Morgan's writing, now packed away in the library of the University of Rochester...