Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your apt description of Edward A. Filene as a "rich old Boston merchant . . . talking liberalism" printed in TIME, May 24, interested me no less than its refutation in the letter written by Mr. Joseph Warren Bishop Jr. [TIME, June 14]. It seemed to me that TIME did not err, was right as usual...
Felix Vorenberg, another successful Boston merchant (perhaps not quite so rich), and Pierre Jay, then State Bank Commissioner, were both liberal enough to have sensed the potential value of Credit Unions for working people as far back as 1909, which was before Mr. Filene had become fully aware of the future possibilities of "talking liberally" about them. Had it not been for these pioneering crusaders, Massachusetts might never have had a Credit Union Law and Mr. Filene and his associates might not have had the cornerstone on which to build the National Credit Union Movement...
...Sawdust Trail. Only one other prominent New Deal politician has a record that in one respect can compare with that of Governor Earle: he and Franklin Roosevelt were born with silver spoons in their mouths and brought up in the stodgiest of rich, conservative societies, Roosevelt among the squires of Dutchess County, Earle on Philadelphia's "Main Line,"* among Pews, Biddies, Cadwaladers, Morrises and other families found in the Social Register and the upper brackets of the income...
...ship to Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, to see if the two Wasp motors can take it off the water at that 7,740-ft. altitude. Heretofore no plane has ever taken off from water higher than 6,225-ft. Lake Tahoe in California. In New Guinea, where rich, 30-year-old Explorer Archbold plans to fly via Pan American's bases across the Pacific, he hopes to be able to land on and take off from a lake 11,000 ft. high. Last year in New Guinea a smaller plane upset in a squall at Port Moresboy. In memory...
...newspaper publishing has a championship class, certainly it is the Manhattan morning field. In sophistication as well as numbers that public is a U. S. news publisher's greatest challenge. The young man from California who, 42 years ago, took up that challenge, was courageous as well as rich. He bargained the late John Roll McLean down from $360,000 to $180,000 for his wobbly Morning Journal and then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane...