Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know...
...concerts John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his daughter Abby sat on camp chairs and listened. Afterwards Mr. Rockefeller offered to help pay the expenses, paid for two concerts in 1919, for the four January concerts every year since. Rich Manhattanites like Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal, Frederic A. Juilliard, the late Charles W. Gould paid for four concerts every March...
...only was the expense of digging it out terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
...reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon follow in rich procession, dipping down into the synagogue itself from time to time until the night is over and the congregation is spared slaughter but is exiled and sent once more on the Jews' eternal road...
...years ago, upon taking office as England's Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a lawyer with a rich practice among health and life insurance companies, appealed to England's doctors for an effective treatment for the common cold...