Word: riches
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acts of Congress?" (1802) Chief Justice John Marshall: "To undertake here [in the Supreme Court] to inquire into the degree of ... necessity, would be ... to tread on legislative ground." (1819) Andrew Jackson: "When the laws undertake ... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society...
...Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class of 1911 elected former President Herbert Jaques of the U. S. Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class of 1912. The proud 1912 alumni plan the "greatest and most elaborate" 25th reunion yet staged in Cambridge, chafe to outdo Author Tunis' rumpled Class...
Gustavus Wynne Cook of Philadelphia furnishes a shining example of what a rich businessman can do with his hobbies. On his estate in the Philadelphia suburbs he has the world's most elaborate private astronomical observatory. His 28½-in. telescope, installed in 1932, is the most powerful possessed by an amateur. He has been privileged to call himself "Dr." Cook since last June when the University of Pennsylvania made him Doctor of Science. Gustavus Wynne Cook is president of South Chester Tube Co. and of South Chester Terminal & Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies...
...transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow (Sidney Blackmer) who postpones an operation on a boy violinist to attend to a rich client. Because of the delay the fiddler loses the use of his playing arm. Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent) threatens to testify against Dr. Ludlow, losing thereby his job and his fiancee, Catherine Stanwood (Ruth Cole-man), daughter of a hospital owner. Trent transfers his interest to Ruth Hanlon (Helen...
...From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...