Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone can take exactly the same 2,000-mile trip made by the U. S. Ambassador last week, under the auspices of Intourist, the Soviet State Travel Bureau, but not with the same super-service from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked...
...Cantabrico's, crew had been taken off by the Canarias "so presumably the ship sank." Next day a Red seaman from the Mar Cantabrico popped up in France, said he was rescued by a fishing smack and that he saw the Canarias towing the crippled freighter and her rich cargo to a White port...
...city of shining hills and seagirt promontories, the nation's most spectacular publisher last week celebrated the birth of his business. It was 50 years since William Randolph Hearst was given the San Francisco Examiner by his father, rich old Senator George Hearst. To mark the anniversary, the first publishing property of the Hearst enterprises ran off a 134-page edition of 306,000 copies. One of its most striking features was a letter, written by "Will" Hearst, 24 and recently rusticated from Harvard, to tell his father what he would do if he had the Examiner to play...
...Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page's secretary, a rich young athlete named Harold Fowler, resigned to go to War as a flyer. By the Armistice, Col. Harold Fowler had been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy...
...small but sternly independent preparatory school is Gunnery, which has perched in the Berkshires near Washington, Conn. since 1850. Founded by an abolitionist named Frederick William Gunn, Gunnery still warns parents that "luxury, waste, and soft living are contrary to the spirit of the school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother...