Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spouse of Assistant Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky should have taken Mrs. Davies socially in tow on a round of Moscow creches and factory restaurants while Ambassador Davies, his daughter Emlen and his valet went off to inspect the Ukraine. It was not that Mrs. Davies, the extremely rich General Foods heiress, is known in Russia for her notable philanthropies-on which she did not cut down during Depression, while she did cut down on her parties, one of which included elephants from Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus, and cooch dancers.† Moscow does not care about the 700 free meals...
...west of Moscow. Such dachi simply do not exist in Soviet newspapers or for visiting Communists, who hear all about the "austerity and simplicity" of Big Reds. However, at 1 p. m. in the dacha of Rosengoltz the heiress from Manhattan and her corporation lawyer husband, who is rich in his own right, sat down to feast with handsome War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials. Three hours later the champagne was still being quaffed, and over coffee and liqueurs friendly questions & answers cracked for another two hours...
...Harvard students (that rich man's sons' college), have by a vote of 1228 to 49 voted against a ruling prohibiting entertaining of female visitors singly in the House rooms...
...becoming a common saying, 'the rich can get by with any criminal acts they desire...
...made the friendship of William Hamlin Childs, a power in Barrett Co. (Tarvia, roofing, chemicals), and that big Allied Chemical subsidiary became his first major account. Liking his advice, Barrett Co. invited him to become a board member, first of the series of business alliances which made him a rich...