Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weighed 200 lb.; 5) he was an Elk, Mason, Moose, Odd Fellow, Shriner, Legionary; 6) his favorite expression was "By Golly"; 7) he was a tireless and sometime tiring speaker; 8) his wife, Clara, played the harp. But all these things combined were outweighed by the fact that rich & radical Senator Couzens had appeared to love the New Deal too dearly since that raw day in 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt moved into the White House...
...status quo under a strengthened League of Nations; Herr Hitler was for authoritarian States willing to make no more than a regional peace in Western Europe, scorned the League of Nations, and was keen for altering the status quo to give Germany at least some colonies and perhaps some rich chunks of Russian territory...
...relations with the foreign powers.'' declared the rich contralto of Her Majesty, "continue to be friendly...
...White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived on the tragic errand of rushing to the bedside of her eldest son Alfonso. He renounced his rights as Spanish Crown Prince to marry a rich Cuban commoner (TIME, July 3, 1933), is now the Count of Covadonga, and as his mother landed he had just undergone the eleventh of a series of blood transfusions at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...this case the well-lubricated and almost irresistible power of the amalgamated gentlemen swings into action against a rich English Jew, accepted by society for his money. This lonely individual, sympathetically and brilliantly played by Basil Rathbone, incurs the united wrath by accusing a ne'erdo-well army captain of having stolen from him a thousand pounds. Having detected the wastrel's guilt with that incredible acumen found only in investigators who have their authors on their side, he fights a lone and losing battle for his money, even though at least one of the captain's friends, the most...